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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... simple genetic - traits ; multiple - gene traits , like intelli- gence , are just beginning to be investigated by these methods . But already we have much more detailed and certain knowledge in this field , and a review seems timely ...
... simple 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 ...
... Simple things like time and distance on earth are easily measured with great accuracy ; after all we have been working at this for thousands of years . Consider things like the age of the universe , the distance of remote galaxies are ...
... simple facts of genetic deter- mination derives from a completely erroneous perception of just what such a statement means , and what its consequences are . A major pur- pose of this book is to spell out these consequences in some ...
... . One might even say that most of the confusion that is often apparent in public debates is due to simple misunderstandings that could easily be avoided FIGURE 1.1 Chinese Seven Coincidence Board ( wisdom board ) 12 Intelligence.
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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 |