APS

30th APS Annual Convention

Human Mental Abilities: Unitary or Diverse?

Friday, May 25, 2018 · San Francisco, CA

Oral · General

The history of mental abilities testing has seen several contrasting approaches. These traditions have different theories and methodologies. This symposium will examine conceptualizations of the diversity of mental abilities from several different viewpoints including neuropsychology, psychometrics, cognitive psychology, and computational perspectives.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Dennis McFarlandChair
    Wadsworth Laboratories

Presentations

  1. "Using Neuropsychology to Carve Human Mental Abilities at Their Joints: Lessons from Lesion Studies"Daniel Tranel
  2. “Measuring Narrow Mental Abilities: Problems Associated with IQ Subscore Interpretation”Kara Styck
  3. “Process Overlap Theory: A Modern Sampling Model of Intelligence”Andrew Conway
  4. “How Simulations Can Inform the Study of Human Mental Abilities”Dennis McFarland