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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... fact , so often disregarded and ne- glected by politically motivated commentators wholly ignorant of the true facts . For many people , when all is said and done , " intelligence " is still a mentalistic kind of concept , miles away ...
... Facts are objective , decisions subjective . We may not like the facts , but they are stubborn ; facts are the products of nature , and scientists are merely the messengers who seek and pass on the messages nature has for us . Don't ...
... facts and inven- tions thousands of years before Europe was able to emulate the Chi- nese sages . As these few lines show , this tendency to outpace Europeans in scientific discovery extends even to the field of intelligence ; here too ...
... fact regarded " intelligence " merely as the 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 ...
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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 |