The Structure of Intellectual Competence in Late Adolescence

Construct of intellectual competence, understood as a special type of knowledge organization, is considered in terms of conceptual, categorical, semantic abilities and cognitive-and-personality components of mental activity. Participants: 102 students at the age of 15 years. Methods: “Generalization of the three words”, “Conceptual synthesis”, “The visual semantics of words”, “The semantic differential”, “Features of thinking”, “Narrative”. According to the results, the structure of intellectual competence can be described by semantic abilities. Indicators of cognitive-and-personality components of mental activity associated with the conceptual and categorical abilities. The results display the complexity of cognitive-and-personal structure and the principle of multi-level organization of intellectual competence in late adolescence, explore the development of competence in ontogeny and mechanisms for its formation.