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Word and Image: Sources of the Verbal and Spatial Factors in Mental Test Scores

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

R. Darrell Bock
R. Darrell Bock*
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University of Chicago
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Psychometrika , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , December 1973 , pp. 437 - 457
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Copyright © 1973 The Psychometric Society

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Presidential address delivered at the annual meeting of the Psychometric Society, held jointly with Division 5 of the American Psychological Association, Montreal, Canada, August 28, 1973. This research was supported by NSF Grant GS 35642 to the University of Chicago and by a grant from the Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry.

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