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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... better selected samples has extended our evi- dence on the hereditarian aspects of intelligence , as well as on the envi- ronmental ones , with important consequences . In addition , advances in molecular genetics have enabled us to ...
... better than before just what it means to say that IQ differences are largely genetic , and what consequences follow from such a statement . Much of the criti- cism heaped on psychologists stating the simple facts of genetic deter ...
... better class of school , and kept back the child coming from an inner - city school . I knew many of the pioneers who introduced these tests , and they were all outraged by the handicaps suffered by deprived children of the poor , and ...
... better , although with hard work he might succeed to stay at the lower end of his class even with a slightly lower IQ . To enter a ( good ) university , an IQ of 115 would be pretty well the lowest limit , leading to a modest lower ...
... better than the average person twenty or more years ago . This means that on a test standardized twenty years ago , the average person would now have a score of 106 IQ , rather than 100 IQ , suggesting the need for restandardization of ...
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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 |