Intelligence: A New LookTransaction Publishers - Всего страниц: 227 The concept and measurement of intelligence present a curious paradox. On the one hand, scientists, fluent in the complex statistics of intelligence-testing theories, devote their lives to exploration of cognitive abilities. On the other hand, the media, and inexpert, cross-disciplinary scientists decry the effort as socially divisive and useless in practice. In the past decade, our understanding of testing has radically changed. Better selected samples have extended evidence on the role of heredity and environment in intelligence. There is new evidence on biology and behavior. Advances in molecular genetics have enabled us to discover DMA markers which can identify and isolate a gene for simple genetic traits, paving the way for the study of multiple gene traits, such as intelligence. Hans Eysenck believes these recent developments approximate a general paradigm which could form the basis for future research. He explores the many special abilities--verbal, numerical, visuo-spatial memory--that contribute to our cognitive behavior. He examines pathbreaking work on "multiple" intelligence, and the notion of "social" or "practical" intelligence and considers whether these new ideas have any scientific meaning. Eysenck also includes a study of creativity and intuition--as well as the production of works of art and science--identifying special factors that interact with general intelligence to produce predictable effects in the actual world. The work that Hans Eysenck has put together over the last fifty years in research into individual differences constitutes most of what anyone means by the structure and biological basis of personality and intelligence. A giant in the field of psychology, Eysenck almost single-handedly restructured and reordered his profession. Intelligence is Eysenck's final book and the third in a series of his works from Transaction. |
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... Achievement 135 12. Genius and Heredity 147 13. Psychopathology and Creativity 161 14. Cognition and Creativity 173 15. Much Ado About IQ 187 Endnotes , References , and Comments 197 Appendix : Mainstream Science on Intelligence 213 ...
... test- ing would ever make such an outrageous statement . To take just one or two examples : IQ predicts with considerable precision a child's scho- lastic achievement , or a youth's success at university . 8 Intelligence.
... achievement ; it is not something you are taught at school . Similarly , IQ predicts success at university , law school , medical college , or indeed any advanced teaching unit more successfully than anything else , including interviews ...
... achievement ! All these criticisms tend to have a political context , as one might have anticipated from the dislike expressed towards IQ testing by Hitler and Stalin , brothers - in - arms to ban any signs of objectivity from the ...
... achievement doctrines , as does his distinction between general ability and specific abilities , which we shall come across later on in its modern form . Finally , Confucius made the distinction between tian zi , the mental ability ...
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Intelligence Reaction Time and Inspection Time | 49 |
The Biological Basis of Intelligence | 61 |
What is the Use of IQ Tests? | 81 |
Can We Improve IQ? | 97 |
Many Intelligences? | 107 |
Conditions for Excellence and Achievement | 135 |
Genius and Heredity | 147 |
Psychopathology and Creativity | 161 |
Cognition and Creativity | 173 |
Much Ado about IQ | 187 |
Endnotes References and Comments | 197 |
Mainstream Science on Intelligence | 213 |
Index | 221 |