Structural invariance of multiple intelligences, based on the level of execution. 'Invarianza estructural de las inteligencias múltiples en función del nivel de ejecución (original) (raw)

More than a century of controversy on intelligence concerning its structure has lead to two opposite approaches: one defending a general (g) factor as the best and the suffi cient construct to represent intelligence ; the other one, proposing a multifactor perspective and taking intelligence formed by several independent aptitudes . Progressively, hierarchical models are proposed to solve this controversy combining general or higher order factors with primary aptitudes . A more recent proposal of higher and lower factor level combination is present in the three-stratum theory of cognitive abilities, usually known as the CHC (Cattell-Horn-Carroll) theory. This theory implies that, after the correlations among 80 primary aptitudes, a dozen of second-order factors is proposed, as well as a third level of factor analyses with a general factor quite similar to Spearman's g factor