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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... tasks such as reaction - time and inspection - time , offering the subject tasks which are so easy that even severely mentally retarded children can carry them out , but where speed of execution is the vari- able measured . Older ...
... Task Force , charged with making a report on the present standing of the intelligence concept ; I have paid much attention to this report . Finally , the Wall Street Journal published a statement by over fifty ex- perts in intelligence ...
... task of this volume to justify these claims . But what about accuracy of measurement ? The incredible degree of accuracy with which we can measure time and distance — hardly a sec- ond out in a million years , hardly a yard out in ...
... bird heading upward to the sky Nine - hundred - year - old intelligence test used in China . The task is to use the seven pieces in ( a ) to construct meaningful figures , as in ( b ) and ( c ) . with a little care . Let us start with a.
... tasks however simple or however complex , correlate positively together , generating a " positive manifold . " In other words , something like general intelligence is all - pervasive . It follows from this that our choice of tests is ...
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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 |