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Kan, Kees-Jan

Testing the mutualism model of general intelligence

Kees-Jan Kan (PhD student)
Psychological Methodology
Department of Psychology
FMG, University of Amsterdam
Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam
Phone: +31 20 525 6876 / 6870 (secretary)
E-mail: Kees-Jan Kan

Project: Project financed by University of Amsterdam
Project running from: 1 April 2007 – 1 April 2011
Supervisors: Prof. dr H.L.J. Van der Maas, dr C.V. Dolan

Summary of project

Van der Maas, Dolan, Grasman, Wicherts, Huizenga & Raijmakers (2006) proposed a new theory of general intelligence based on the idea of mutualistic interactions during development between the cognitive processes underlying intelligence. They showed that such interactions lead to a positive manifold of correlations between scores on cognitive tasks. This theory is an important alternative for the standard g theory (Jensen, 1998), which conceptualized g as a single latent dimension. The aim of this project is to further investigate the mutualism model. Topics are: model extension, model equivalence, evidence from experimental data, and evidence from longitudinal correlational data.

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