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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... 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 discover ...
... selection . 5. IQ testing was introduced to bolster the claims of the white race to superiority . Tests are essentially colour - blind , and give an objective estimate of intellectual ability . If anyone fancied , or hoped , that they ...
... selected ob- jectively by means of examinations open to all , and almost certainly correlating quite highly with IQ , this produced the longest period of existence for any civilized society the world has ever known , and also led to the ...
... selection as far as these occupations are concerned . But when we come to the semiskilled work- ing - class occupations , we find very high S.Ds. ! In other words , here we have people with high IQs in the same occupations as people ...
... selection and other practical applications of IQ testing . If we take the Wechsler test , an individually administered test having eleven subtests , and widely regarded as the gold standard of IQ testing , we find that giving a person ...
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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 |