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Binet’s Error: Developmental Change and Individual Differences in Intelligence Are Related to Different Mechanisms
In common with most, if not all, papers in this special issue, I will argue that understanding the nature of developmental change and individual differences in intelligence requires a theory of the mechanisms underlying both factors. Insofar as these mechanisms constitute part of the fundamental arc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6526414/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31162415 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence5020024 |
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description | In common with most, if not all, papers in this special issue, I will argue that understanding the nature of developmental change and individual differences in intelligence requires a theory of the mechanisms underlying both factors. Insofar as these mechanisms constitute part of the fundamental architecture of cognition, this is also an exercise in unifying the discipline and research on intelligence in both children and adults. However, I argue that a variety of data support a theory suggesting that developmental change is the province of mechanisms commonly regarded as components of executive functioning or cognitive control, whereas individual differences are constrained by the speed of information processing. Perhaps paradoxically, this leads to the conclusion that Binet’s fundamental insight—that children’s increasing ability to solve problems of increasing difficulty could generate a single scale of intelligence—is wrong. Compounding the paradox, this means that mental age and IQ are not simply two different ways of expressing the same thing, but are related to two different dimensions of g itself. |
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spelling | pubmed-65264142019-05-29 Binet’s Error: Developmental Change and Individual Differences in Intelligence Are Related to Different Mechanisms Anderson, Mike J Intell Article In common with most, if not all, papers in this special issue, I will argue that understanding the nature of developmental change and individual differences in intelligence requires a theory of the mechanisms underlying both factors. Insofar as these mechanisms constitute part of the fundamental architecture of cognition, this is also an exercise in unifying the discipline and research on intelligence in both children and adults. However, I argue that a variety of data support a theory suggesting that developmental change is the province of mechanisms commonly regarded as components of executive functioning or cognitive control, whereas individual differences are constrained by the speed of information processing. Perhaps paradoxically, this leads to the conclusion that Binet’s fundamental insight—that children’s increasing ability to solve problems of increasing difficulty could generate a single scale of intelligence—is wrong. Compounding the paradox, this means that mental age and IQ are not simply two different ways of expressing the same thing, but are related to two different dimensions of g itself. MDPI 2017-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6526414/ /pubmed/31162415 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence5020024 Text en © 2017 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Anderson, Mike Binet’s Error: Developmental Change and Individual Differences in Intelligence Are Related to Different Mechanisms |
title | Binet’s Error: Developmental Change and Individual Differences in Intelligence Are Related to Different Mechanisms |
title_full | Binet’s Error: Developmental Change and Individual Differences in Intelligence Are Related to Different Mechanisms |
title_fullStr | Binet’s Error: Developmental Change and Individual Differences in Intelligence Are Related to Different Mechanisms |
title_full_unstemmed | Binet’s Error: Developmental Change and Individual Differences in Intelligence Are Related to Different Mechanisms |
title_short | Binet’s Error: Developmental Change and Individual Differences in Intelligence Are Related to Different Mechanisms |
title_sort | binet’s error: developmental change and individual differences in intelligence are related to different mechanisms |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6526414/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31162415 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence5020024 |
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