Comprehensive frameworks explaining the nature, structure, and development of cognitive abilities, including theories of general intelligence, multiple intelligences, and triarchic intelligence.
Example: Spearman's g-factor theory proposing general intelligence underlying all cognitive abilities, versus Gardner's theory of multiple independent intelligences in different domains.
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