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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... correlations suggest a return to Sir Francis Galton's theories of mental speed , theories which also find support from the biological studies mentioned above . It has been part of the theory of intelligence for 1 Introduction.
... mental findings and theoretical expectations . I have not , of course , covered everything that relates to intelligence ; this is not meant to be a textbook , but a fairly concise outline of what science has to say about the topic at ...
... mental measurement ? Well , it depends what you are measuring . Take cosmol- ogy , and let us look at the age of the universe . According to the Big Bang theory , this can be measured by reference to the Hubble constant , H , that is ...
... mental psychology , marking the first triumph in actually measuring , with considerable accuracy , a mental quality . On the other hand , we have journalists , media people , and even the occasional scientist drift- ing in from other ...
... mental psychology , behavioural genetics , sociology and education , cog- nitive science , counselling psychology , and occupational psychology to questions about intelligence , 99.3 percent agreed on the importance of abstract thinking ...
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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 |