Intelligence: Concept & Theories
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With reference to the Structure of Intellect Model proposed by J.P. Guilford, if during a mental operation a person needs to discover or generate new meanings, relationships, or conclusions from given information or symbols, under which dimension of mental operations does this specific intellectual process fall in Guilford's three-dimensional classification?
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According to J.P. Guilford's Structure of Intellect Model, intellectual abilities are classified into three independent dimensions: Operations, Contents, and Products. The 'Operations' dimension includes five types of mental processes: Cognition, Memory Recording, Memory Retention, Divergent Production, Convergent Production, and Evaluation. When there is a need to move away from a single direction and find multiple new, original, and alternative solutions or meanings to solve a problem, it falls under divergent production, which is also closely associated with creativity.
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