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This chapter reviews the literature on social intelligence (SI) as it has evolved over the century since Thorndike (1920) popularized the concept. Most research on SI has been guided by an ability view, and an analogy to IQ, as exemplified by the George Washington University Social Intelligence Test, and the “behavioral” contents in Guilford’s Structure of Intellect. The assessment of SI is important for the assessment of intellectual disability (mental retardation) and the autistic spectrum, but raises the question of whether SI is a qualitatively different form of intelligence, or simply general intelligence applied in social situations. The chapter proposes an alternative knowledge view of SI as the fund of declarative and procedural knowledge which the individual brings to bear on social interactions, especially in the pursuit of important life tasks.
British psychologist Charles Spearman proposed a conception of intelligence perhaps most widely (though by no means universally) accepted by authors and users of intelligence tests. This chapter discusses Cattell and Horn's Gf-Gc Model, Carroll's Three-Stratum hierarchy, integration of Horn-Cattell and Carroll models to form CHC theory and applications of CHC Theory-Cross-Battery Assessment and Test Development. Stanovich argues for separating mental abilities measured by intelligence tests (MAMBIT) from other abilities, such as rational decision making, Sternberg's three components of successful intelligence, and Gardner's eight intelligences. Factor-based theories of intelligence have proliferated since Spearman started the ball rolling more than a century ago. The time has come for developers of individual clinical tests of intelligence to broaden their basis of test construction beyond the analytic dimension of Sternberg's triarchic theory and to begin to embrace the assessment of both practical intelligence and creativity.
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