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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... notion of " social " or " practical " intelligence ; it seemed opportune to look at these new ideas and see whether they had any scientific meaning . Finally , I include a fairly lengthy study of one of these special fac- tors that ...
... notions much more eva- nescent and diaphanous than IQ . Consider an example . Stephen Weinberg and Aldus Salam , two well - known physicists , used the con- cepts of quantum field theory to combine the electromagnetic and electroweak ...
... notion that IQ differences are largely due to genetic causes has been conclusively disproved since certain results reported by Sir Cyril Burt have been suggested to have been fraudulent . A fourth assertion states that IQ testing was ...
... notion that psychologists disagree ? Psychologists often describe the many things a high IQ enables us to do . These are indeed manifold , but to concentrate on one or the other does not imply disagreement on the nature of intelligence ...
... notion that differences in IQ are largely determined by heredity has been disproved . Quite the contrary is true . It has been known for many years that heredity contributes more than environment to differences in IQ , but recent years ...
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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 |