Structure of Intelligence in Intellectually Precocious Children and in Their Parents.

Benbow, Camilla Persson; And Others

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Publication Date: 1983

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Structure of Intelligence in Intellectually Precocious Children and in Their Parents.

Benbow, Camilla Persson; And Others

Intelligence, v7 n2 p129-52 Apr-Jun 1983

Students of high intellectual ability and their parents were tested on a battery of cognitive tests. Vernon's model of intelligence best fit results. A verbal-educational and a practical-spatial-mechanical factor explained most performance variance. Among children, age related to verbal but not spatial or mechanical abilities. (Author/RD)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Correlation, Higher Education, Intelligence Differences, Intelligence Tests, Junior High Schools, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Influence, Sex Differences, Talent Identification

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