CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

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GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The psychologist who disagreed with Spearman about the nature of intelligence, identifying seven clusters of primary mental abilities rather than one general intelligence factor, was
A
Peek.
B
Sternberg.
C
Gardner.
D
Thurstone.
E
Wagner.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The seven primary mental abilities in Thurstone’s model were verbal comprehension, word fluency, number facility, spatial visualization, associative memory, perceptual speed and reasoning.

Detailed explanation-2: -Spearman believed that we have one general intelligence (g). Thurstone did not rank people on a single scale of general aptitude. He tested people on 7 clusters of primary mental abilities.

Detailed explanation-3: -Louis Thurston came out with the group factor theory (1937) saying that Intelligence is a cluster of abilities. These mental operations then constitute a group. A second group of mental operations has its own unifying Primary factor; a third group has a third Primary factor and so on.

Detailed explanation-4: -L. L. Thurstone (1938) proposed that there were seven clusters of primary mental abilities, made up of word fluency, verbal comprehension, spatial ability, perceptual speed, numerical ability, inductive reasoning, and memory.

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