PSYCHOMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF ABILITIES AS THE BASIS OF AN INDIVIDUAL INTELLECTUAL RESOURCE OF A STUDENT

The authors considered the main approaches of the category of intelligence: its essence, types, methods of development and the main approaches to the study of the problem of individual intellectual resource of the individual. The basic ideas about the nature of conceptual thinking and conceptual (including semantic, categorical and conceptual) abilities, their development and influence on various aspects of intellectual activity were analyzed, developed and tested a program of empirical research of conceptual abilities as the basis of individual intellectual resources in senior and junior adolescence using adequate psychodiagnostic techniques and statistical data processing procedures.