The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability

by Arthur R. Jensen

Book Overview

Jensen provides a comprehensive treatment of one of the major constructs of behavioral science--general mental ability--labeled the g factor by its discoverer, Charles Spearman. The g factor is about individual differences in mental abilities. In factor analyses of any and every large and diverse collection of measures of mental abilities, however varied the content of knowledge and skills they call upon, g emerges as the largest,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275961036
• ISBN13: 9780275961039
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 664 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"