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Preferred term
cognitive ability: G factor
Definition
- Introduction There is an unlimited variety of human mental abilities, defined as any form of information processing capability that can be assessed objectively and quantitatively by means of psychometric tests or various laboratory apparatuses. Information processing includes diverse cognitive functions such as stimulus apprehension, attention, perception, sensory discrimination, generalization, conditioning, learning, short-term and long-term memory, recall, learning-set acquisition, concept formation, thinking, reasoning, inference, problem solving, planning, invention, and use of language. [Source: Encyclopedia of Psychological Assessment; Cognitive Ability: G Factor]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/cognitive_ability:_G_factor
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