Guilford’s Theory of Structure of Intellect Model (SI Model)

           J. P Guilford (1961) developed the structure of intellect model on the basis of the factor analysis, He suggested every mental process or intellectual activity can be described in terms of three basic dimensions or parameters.

Such as Operation, Content, Production

He argued that intelligence consisted 150 different and independent skills.

Each of these intellectual abilities or structures is interlinked.

Therefore, he thinks 5x5x6=150intellectual abilities, which are presented below:

 

  

Intellectual abilities are placed under three broad categories

1.      Operation

Cognition: Individual is able to recognize thing.

Memory: Ability to recall or retrieve learned information

Divergent production: we think in different directions searching and seeking for some variety and novelty. It closely associated with creativity. General to Specific

Convergent Production: it is generation of information conventionally accepted and it determines the response.

Evaluation: reaching decision making or judgments

2.      Contents

Visual : it is a concrete material, which has been perceived through the eyes.

Auditory : it consists of the matters or information perceived through ears.

Symbolic: it is composed of letters, digits and other conventional signs.

Semantic: it is the form of  clear-cut verbal meaning or ideas for which no examples are necessary

Behavioural: Social intelligence which enables one to understand human communications.

3.      Products

Unit: To grasp sensory perception in to their uniqueness.

Classes: The ability to categorize ideas.

Relations: The ability to understand, the relations between or among existing things.

Systems:   the ability group ideas or problems into space or the ability to structure problems for solutions.

Transformation : the ability to produce the future shape of a certain object situation under a certain circumstances.

Implications: The ability to understand the implied meanings.

Education Implication of SI Model

§  Helpful for constructing various type of Intelligence test suitable to different age group

§  Study individual difference in society

§  Discovered many mental ability which were not known before

§  Vocational testing

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