Conceptual Abilities as the Basis of Individual Intellectual Resource

This article presents the results of the study of correlations and interactions between conceptual, intellectual and creative abilities and the manifestation of individual intellectual resource. The individual intellectual resource is treated as the individual identity of person’s mental experience that determines the effectiveness of his or her intellectual activity. Assuming that the expression of individual intellectual resource is the result of actualization of the conceptual abilities (abilities to generate a new mental experience), creativity, psychometric intelligence, we carried out two series of empirical research with school and student participants (n = 230). It is shown that the conceptual (generative) creative (non-verbal) abilities and psychometric intelligence make a system formation describing the state of individual intellectual resource. The results indicate that the level of conceptual abilities is the basis of individual intellectual resources, expressed in terms of real intellectual achievements.