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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... things are beginning to hang together , and the next few years should see an even closer coming together of experi- mental findings and theoretical expectations . I have not , of course , covered everything that relates to intelligence ...
... 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 much ...
... things a high IQ enables us to do . These are indeed manifold , but to concentrate on one or the other does not ... thing is not necessary to make a concept meaningful . 2. IQ tests measure nothing important , merely the ability to do IQ ...
... thing like " understanding " and " knowledge " ; the latter " natural dispo- sition " or " ability . " These are two meanings of our term , intelligence , that have always adhered to it . Fundamental to intelligent behaviour is an ...
... thing about this table , other than the obvi- ous relationship between IQ and social status . Note that the S.Ds. of the occupational groups increase dramatically as you go down in social status . Nearly all the middle - class ...
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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 |