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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... . After six- teen mental growth ceases gradually , so that M.A. does not increase , hence after that age we cannot use the formula any more . If we did a person with an IQ of : 133 at 12 ( = 16 12 · 100 ) 18 Intelligence.
... increase dramatically as you go down in social status . Nearly all the middle - class occupations have S.Ds. below 15 , which is the population standard . This makes sense ; to become an ac- countant , or lawyer , or teacher , you are ...
... increase is not altogether clear . Certainly there has been no corresponding gain in school achievement , suggesting that it is not intelligence as such that is increasing , but merely a not perfectly accurate measure of it . What might ...
... increase in difficulty , and many are so difficult that only a few subjects can solve them . It used to be thought ... increasing in difficulty . Critics often look at test items and say : " These are ridiculously easy ; they can't ...
... increase in IQ there is a corresponding increase in earnings ! One has to be vigilant , of course , in looking at the evidence . Some critics have looked at the average earnings of thirty - year - old men , and found no difference ...
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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 |