CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

VARIATIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL ATTRIBUTES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Louis Thurstone’s theory of primary mental abilities states that intelligence consists of how many primary abilities?
A
Seven
B
Five
C
Two
D
Six
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: -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-3: -• Perception–the ability to see differences and similarities among objects. • Reasoning–the ability to find rules. After deciding that these seven factors made up intelligence, Thurstone rearranged the existing subtests and devised some new ones.

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