TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lang, Jonas
AU  - Kell, Harrison J.
AB  - There are many different theories of intelligence. Although these theories differ in their nuances, nearly all agree that there are multiple cognitive abilities and that they differ in the breadth of content they are typically associated with. There is much less agreement about the relative importance of cognitive abilities of differing generality for predicting important real-world outcomes, such as educational achievement, career success, job performance, and health. Some investigators believe that narrower abilities hold little predictive power once general abilities have been accounted for. Other investigators contend that specific abilities are often as—or even more—effective in forecasting many practical variables as general abilities. These disagreements often turn on differences of theory and methodology that are both subtle and complex. The five cutting-edge contributions in this volume, both empirical and theoretical, advance the conversation in this vigorous, and highly important, scientific debate.
DO  - 10.3390/books978-3-03921-168-5
ID  - OAPEN ID: 35923
KW  - general cognitive ability
KW  - second stratum abilities
KW  - narrow abilities
KW  - cognitive abilities
KW  - ability tilt
KW  - identification
KW  - occupational attainment
KW  - scholastic performance
KW  - longevity
KW  - non-g residuals
KW  - specific abilities
KW  - higher-order factor model
KW  - bifactor model
KW  - intelligence
KW  - general intelligence (g)
KW  - specific factors
KW  - academic achievement
KW  - hierarchical factor model
KW  - educational attainment
KW  - nested-factor models
KW  - ability differentiation
KW  - general abilities
KW  - relative importance
KW  - relative importance analysis
KW  - bifactor(S-1) model
KW  - subscores
KW  - g-factor
KW  - school grades
KW  - non-g factors
KW  - nested-factors model
KW  - general mental ability
KW  - cognitive tests
KW  - specific cognitive abilities
KW  - curvilinear relations
KW  - specific ability
KW  - situational specificity
KW  - predictor-criterion bandwidth alignment
KW  - job performance
KW  - health
KW  - machine learning
KW  - academic performance
KW  - general factor
L1  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1446
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/48877
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9783039211685
SN  - 9783039211678
TI  - The Great Debate: General Ability and Specific Abilities in the Prediction of Important Outcomesnull
ER  - 
