%0 Journal Article
%T What Is IQ? Life Beyond ¡°General Intelligence¡±
%A Andrew R. A. Conway
%A Kristof Kovacs
%J Current Directions in Psychological Science
%@ 1467-8721
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0963721419827275
%X For more than a century, the standard view in the field of human intelligence has been that there is a ¡°general intelligence¡± that permeates all human cognitive activity. This general cognitive ability is supposed to explain the positive manifold, the finding that intelligence tests with different content all correlate. Yet there is a lack of consensus regarding the psychological or neural basis of such an ability. A recent account, process-overlap theory, explains the positive manifold without proposing general intelligence. As a consequence of the theory, IQ is redefined as an emergent formative construct rather than a reflective latent trait. This implies that IQ should be interpreted as an index of specific cognitive abilities rather than the reflection of an underlying general cognitive ability
%K IQ
%K intelligence
%K process-overlap theory
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963721419827275