Book Description
Provides an overview of leading scholars' approaches to understanding the nature of intelligence, its measurement, its investigation, and its development.
Author : Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 25,78 MB
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 1107176573
Provides an overview of leading scholars' approaches to understanding the nature of intelligence, its measurement, its investigation, and its development.
Author : Joy Paul Guilford
Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 33,86 MB
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1316821242
The study of human intelligence features many points of consensus, but there are also many different perspectives. In this unique book Robert J. Sternberg invites the nineteen most highly cited psychological scientists in the leading textbooks on human intelligence to share their research programs and findings. Each chapter answers a standardized set of questions on the measurement, investigation, and development of intelligence - and the outcome represents a wide range of substantive and methodological emphases including psychometric, cognitive, expertise-based, developmental, neuropsychological, genetic, cultural, systems, and group-difference approaches. This is an exciting and valuable course book for upper-level students to learn from the originators of the key contemporary ideas in intelligence research about how they think about their work and about the field.
Author : Michael E. Martinez PhD
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0199781931
Ever since Alfred Binet invented the first IQ test more than a century ago, we have thought of intelligence as fixed from birth and unalterable-as genetically programmed and immutable as eye color. If our IQ was 115 at the age of eighteen, it would be 115 at age thirty-two and at age seventy-two. But as Michael Martinez reveals in Future Bright, human intelligence is not at all a static quality. Drawing on cutting-edge research, Martinez shows that not only can we improve our IQ scores--with the right approach, we can improve intelligence itself. Future Bright introduces the radical view that intelligence can be learned. Ranging from the search for Einstein's brain to the curious case of a railroad worker whose frontal lobe was pierced by a tamping iron, Martinez looks at some of the most fascinating stories in the history of cognitive science, revealing how researchers have sought insight into intelligence by understanding more about the brain. We see how the physical structures of the brain relate to how we think, discover how memories are made, and examine the several kinds of intelligence. Martinez then explores the astonishing evidence from recent cognitive science that intelligence can be learned. Equally important, he concludes with ten strategies for enhancing our intelligence, beginning with the all-important idea of making improved intelligence a conscious goal, and including such ideas as reading books, learning to be an expert, finding where our talents lie and, not least, eating well and exercising, both of which improve brain function significantly. Genetics is only one of the factors that shape our intelligence. Future Bright highlights the many ways that the environment and education can increase our brain power, promoting the growth of a more intelligent society--one that will lead us into a brighter future indeed.
Author : Earl Hunt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 21,99 MB
Release : 2010-11-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1139495119
This book is a comprehensive survey of our scientific knowledge about human intelligence, written by a researcher who has spent more than 30 years studying the field, receiving a Lifetime Contribution award from the International Society for Intelligence. Human Intelligence takes a non-ideological view of a topic in which, too often, writings are dominated by a single theory or social viewpoint. The book discusses the conceptual status of intelligence as a collection of cognitive skills that include, but also go beyond, those skills evaluated by conventional tests; intelligence tests and their analysis; contemporary theories of intelligence; biological and social causes of intelligence; the importance of intelligence in social, industrial, and educational spheres; the role of intelligence in determining success in life, both inside and outside educational settings; and the nature and causes of variations in intelligence across age, gender, and racial and ethnic groups.
Author : Nicholas Mackintosh
Publisher : American Chemical Society
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 0199585598
'What is intelligence?' may seem like a simple question to answer, but the study and measurement of human intelligence is one of the most controversial subjects in psychology. IQ and Human Intelligence provides an authoritative overview of the main issues surrounding this fascinating area.
Author : Louis Leon Thurstone
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Intellect
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Author : Russell T. Warne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 14,21 MB
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1108602215
Emotional intelligence is an important trait for success at work. IQ tests are biased against minorities. Every child is gifted. Preschool makes children smarter. Western understandings of intelligence are inappropriate for other cultures. These are some of the statements about intelligence that are common in the media and in popular culture. But none of them are true. In the Know is a tour of the most common incorrect beliefs about intelligence and IQ. Written in a fantastically engaging way, each chapter is dedicated to correcting a misconception and explains the real science behind intelligence. Controversies related to IQ will wither away in the face of the facts, leaving readers with a clear understanding about the truth of intelligence.
Author : Harold John Butcher
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Educational tests and measurements
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Author : Joy Paul Guilford
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 1971
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ISBN : 9780070941809