Guilford's Structure of Intellect (SOI)
J. P. Guilford was a psychologist connected to the development of tests to choose individuals for flight testing during World War II. Guilford's Structure of Intellect (SOI) theory states that a person's success in general intelligence may be traced all the way back to fundamental mental talents or intellectual elements. He used up to 150 different mental capacities and arranged them into three categories in his SOI model: They were 1)Operations, 2) content, and 3) products. A person could be exceptionally gifted in some of these talents while lacking in others, he set out to create tests for every possible scenario of ability on these three dimensions. Categories in Guilford’s Structure of Intellect theory Guilford’s "Structure of Intellect" approach categorises and organises the varied talents into three categories: content, product, and process, respectively. Each dimension is briefly described in the next section. Operations Dimension The structure of...