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Peer reviewedBenbow, Camilla Persson; Minor, Lola L. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1990
When a battery of tests commonly associated with intelligence was administered to 144 13 year olds identified as extremely precocious, the verbally precocious students scored higher on verbal and general knowledge types of tests, and mathematically precocious students scored higher on tests of nonverbal reasoning, spatial ability, and memory.…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Cognitive Development, Gifted, Intelligence Tests
