Analysis
of structural change of intelligence and genetic relations: A nine
year follow-up study
K. Nishikawa |
Kano's
data of nine year follow-up study of Binet Scale were reanalyzed
by the method of cluster analysis. The results are: (1) Differentiation
of intelligence was generally supported; (2) verbal thinking ability
indicated large contribution to intellectual development through
nine years, which changed from verbal comprehension ability to concrete
verbal reasoning ability to specified formal reasoning ability; (3)
memory ability latently differentiated from thinking ability at early
periods and more clearly specialized as age advances; (4) memory
ability in the early period was highly correlated with verbal thinking
ability in the later period, but the verbal thinking ability in the
early period did not indicate any high-relation with the memory ability
in the later period; (5) developmental stages which corresponded
respectively with Piaget's period of preoperational thought, period
of concrete operations, and period of formal operations were found.
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