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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... tion of works of art and science by the geniuses of this world . The topic was chosen because of its general interest , because it illustrates the way I believe the relation between IQ and other special abilities and personality can ...
... tion , particularly when we find that intelligence testing has attracted much political hostility — Hitler banned it because it was Jewish , Stalin because it was bourgeois . ( They banned Einstein's relativity theory for the same ...
... tion to a sudden stimulus . He died in 1911 , still firmly convinced that general cognitive ability was by far the most important influence on a person's life achievements . Alfred Binet was born much later than Galton ( 1857 ) , but ...
... tion and measurement of intelligent behaviour . How can this be done ? What Binet did had the simplicity of genius written all over it . He argued that as children grow up , they function more efficiently as far as intelligence is ...
... tion of whether such tests really measure " intelligence . " There are two ways of coming to a decision . I have already mentioned the first ; test results must bear a reasonable relation to social criteria implied in the notion of ...
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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 |