Question

L. L. Thurstone identified seven clusters of primary mental abilities, including word fluency, memory, and inductive reasoning. He claimed that word fluency
A) underlies all of our intelligent behaviors.
B) is the most difficult mental ability to assess reliably.
C) involves a different dimension of intelligence from that of reasoning.
D) is not actually a form of intelligence.

Answer 1

L. L. Thurstone identified seven clusters of primary mental abilities, including word fluency, memory, and inductive reasoning. He claimed that word fluency involves a different dimension of intelligence from that of reasoning.

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

Louis Leo Thurstone believed that word fluency takes part in a different dimension's intelligence from that reasoning. He was able to come up with a structure of intelligence using Primary Mental Abilities as the core ingredient along with considering that it was an independent group of intelligence that different people own in different degrees. He was able to identify some independent group of intelligence, such as fluency in word, memory and the inductive reasoning.