There are classifications galore. Below is a comparison of one by DeShon, Chan, and Weissbein (1995) with one by Styles (2008):
| DeShon et al | |||||
| Styles | ? | Analytic | Both | Either | Visual |
| ? | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D/T | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Distribution | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Equation | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| S/D | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| S/D/T | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| S/T | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Seriation | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| Transformation | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pretty good agreement between DeShon and co’s “visuospatial” and Styles’ “equation” (both what does and doesn’t fall into these buckets). The “equation” items concern those with “overlapping elements” – seems pretty visuospatial. Also neither classification codes item 15: DeShon and co say it violates the task instructions. The rest is a bit of a mess, but then Styles peeked at a higher resolution into the analytic items.
References
DeShon, R. P., Chan, D., & Weissbein, D. A. (1995). Verbal overshadowing effects on Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices: Evidence for multidimensional performance determinants. Intelligence, 21, 135-155
Styles, I. (2008). Linking Psychometric and Cognitive-Developmental Frameworks for Thinking About Intellectual Functioning. In Raven, J. & Raven, J. (ed.), Uses and Abuses of Intelligence: Studies Advancing Spearman and Raven’s Quest for Non-Arbitrary Metrics. Royal Fireworks Press.