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Difficulties differentiating dissociations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2006

Kristof Kovacs ,
Kate C. Plaisted  and
Nicholas J. Mackintosh
Kristof Kovacs*
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom www.psychol.cam.ac.uk
Kate C. Plaisted*
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom www.psychol.cam.ac.uk
Nicholas J. Mackintosh*
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom www.psychol.cam.ac.uk
*
kk340@cam.ac.uk
kcp1000@cam.ac.uk
njsmm@bio.mole.cam.ac.uk
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Abstract

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We welcome Blair's argument that the relationship between fluid cognition and other aspects of intelligence should be an important focus of research, but are less convinced by his arguments that fluid intelligence is dissociable from general intelligence. This is due to confusions between (a) crystallized skills and g, and (b) universal and differential constructs.

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Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 138 - 139
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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1. We prefer to use the “Gf” abbreviation used by Cattell and Horn to signify fluid intelligence; Blair’s use of “gF” is unusual.