Broad intellectual capacity that underlies performance across diverse mental tasks, representing the common factor shared among different cognitive abilities and skills.
Example: Students who perform well on verbal reasoning tests also typically performing well on mathematical, spatial, and logical reasoning tasks due to underlying general ability.
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