List and describe Thurstone's seven primary mental abilities

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According to Thurstone, the primary mental abilities are as follows:
1 . Verbal comprehension: measured by vocabulary tests
2 . Verbal fluency: measured by time-limited tests requiring the test-taker to think of as many words as possible that begin with a given letter
3 . Inductive reasoning: measured by tests such as analogies and number-series completion tasks
4 . Spatial visualization: measured by tests requiring mental rotation of pictures of objects
5 . Number: measured by computation and simple mathematical problem-solving tests
6 . Memory: measured by picture and word-recall tests
7 . Perceptual speed: measured by tests that require the test-taker to recognize small differences in pictures or to cross out the differences in strings of varied letters

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