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Cognitive Theory and Psychometrics

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During the past decade, students of human intelligence have witnessed more development and change in our conceptions of intelligence than have any students of this topic since the early twentieth century, when such pioneers as Alfred Binet and Charles Spearman were promulgating their new ideas about the nature and assessment of intelligence. This decade of ferment and rapid progress followed several preceding decades in which relatively little had changed in our conceptions of intelligence. Why did a field that had stabilized and, in the opinion of some, become rather staid, all of a sudden take off? Different psychologists might provide different reasons, but many of them would attribute the change to the influence of a new paradigm on theory and research in the field of intelligence. The paradigm was that of cognitive psychology.

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Sternberg, R.J. (1991). Cognitive Theory and Psychometrics. In: Hambleton, R.K., Zaal, J.N. (eds) Advances in Educational and Psychological Testing: Theory and Applications. Evaluation in Education and Human Services Series, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2195-5_13

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