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Give a summary, a straight, and the weaknesses of Charles Spearman's idea of general intelligence.

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According to Charles Spearman, people have one general intelligence. It is a general factor of intelligence and underlies all other intellectual behaviors.

The strength of this approach is reflected in the fact that different abilities are considered to correlate and are interrelated.

However, there are also weaknesses of Spearman's idea, and that is that human abilities are too diverse and complex to be explained only by a simple factor of general intelligence.

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