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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... average child can solve this problem at the age of five , but not at four , then the age - level of the problem is five years . Any child that can solve the problem then is said to have a mental age of ( at least ) five , whatever his ...
... average score corresponds to an IQ of 100 , and so on . We can thus use the normal curve to translate scores into IQs directly , for adults as well as for children , and that is what is now done practically universally . The sta ...
... average IQs of members of various middle - class , skilled , and semi- skilled working - class occupations . These are pretty similar from coun- try to country , and from time to time . There is one interesting thing about this table ...
... average of a large number of faculties , such as memory , verbal abilities , numerical ability , etc. , that were relatively independent , and should be measured separately . Hence he opposed the notion of an IQ , and it is in a sense ...
... average person a score of 100 , but as a performance scale the average person in 1950 may not give the same score as the average person in 1990. James Flynn has shown that the average person now , in the lead- ing capitalist countries ...
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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 |