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Author : Philip A. Vernon
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Biological Approaches to the Study of Human Intellegence written by Philip A. Vernon and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory R. Bock
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470870842
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Intelligence written by Gregory R. Bock and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-10-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary psychology and behavioural genetics are two successful and important fields in the study of human behaviour, but practitioners in these subjects have different conceptions of the nature of human intelligence. Evolutionary psychologists dispute the existence of general intelligence and emphasise the differences among species. They argue that natural and sexual selection would be expected to produce intelligences that are specialised for particular domains, as encountered by particular species. Behavioural geneticists consider general intelligence to be the most fundamental aspect of intelligence and concentrate on the differences between individuals of the same species. This exciting book features papers and discussion contributions from leading behavioural geneticists, evolutionary psychologists and experts on intelligence that explore the differences and the tensions between these two approaches. The nature of 'g' or general intelligence is discussed in detail, as is the issue of the heritability of intelligence. The alternative approaches that emphasise domain-specific intelligences are explored, alongside wide-ranging discussions on a broad range of issues such as the biological basis for intelligence, animal models and changes in IQ scores over time.
Author : Earl Hunt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139495119
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Human Intelligence written by Earl Hunt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135655146
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book The General Factor of Intelligence written by Robert J. Sternberg and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume presents a balanced approach to the ongoing debate of just how general the "general factor" of intelligence is. To accomplish this goal, the editors chose a number of distinct approaches to the study of intelligence--psychometric, genetic-epistemological, cognitive, biological, behavior-genetic, sociocultural, systems--and asked distinguished scholars to write from the standpoint of these approaches. Each approach comprises two chapters, one by a scholar leaning toward a view arguing for the greater generality of g, and the other by a scholar leaning toward a view arguing for the lesser generality of g. The scholars are not simply "for" or "against" these outlooks, rather they provide a more textured view of the general factor, attempting to explain it in psychological terms that are easily understandable. Intended for psychologists in all areas, including clinical, consulting, educational, cognitive, school, developmental, and industrial-organizational, this book will also be of interest to educators, sociologists, anthropologists, and those interested in the nature of intelligence.
Author : Ken Richardson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023154376X
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Genes, Brains, and Human Potential written by Ken Richardson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For countless generations people have been told that their potential as humans is limited and fundamentally unequal. The social order, they have been assured, is arranged by powers beyond their control. More recently the appeal has been to biology, specifically the genes, brain sciences, the concept of intelligence, and powerful new technologies. Reinforced through the authority of science and a growing belief in bio-determinism, the ordering of the many for the benefit of a few has become more entrenched. Yet scientists are now waking up to the influence of ideology on research and its interpretation. In Genes, Brains, and Human Potential, Ken Richardson illustrates how the ideology of human intelligence has infiltrated genetics, brain sciences, and psychology, flourishing in the vagueness of basic concepts, a shallow nature-versus-nurture debate, and the overhyped claims of reductionists. He shows how ideology, more than pure science, has come to dominate our institutions, especially education, encouraging fatalism about the development of human intelligence among individuals and societies. Genes, Brains, and Human Potential goes much further: building on work being done in molecular biology, epigenetics, dynamical systems, evolution theory, and complexity theory, it maps a fresh understanding of intelligence and the development of human potential. Concluding with an upbeat message for human possibilities, this synthesis of diverse perspectives will engender new conversations among students, researchers, and other interested readers.
Author : National Academy of Sciences
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book In the Light of Evolution written by National Academy of Sciences and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences address scientific topics of broad and current interest, cutting across the boundaries of traditional disciplines. Each year, four or five such colloquia are scheduled, typically two days in length and international in scope. Colloquia are organized by a member of the Academy, often with the assistance of an organizing committee, and feature presentations by leading scientists in the field and discussions with a hundred or more researchers with an interest in the topic. Colloquia presentations are recorded and posted on the National Academy of Sciences Sackler colloquia website and published on CD-ROM. These Colloquia are made possible by a generous gift from Mrs. Jill Sackler, in memory of her husband, Arthur M. Sackler.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Human Intelligence written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521469043
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Intelligence, Heredity and Environment written by Robert J. Sternberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-28 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the nature - nurture debate as it relates to human intelligence.
Author : Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316821242
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Human Intelligence written by Robert J. Sternberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Colin Cooper
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415141192
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Processes in Individual Differences written by Colin Cooper and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most fascinating topics in psychology is how and why people come to develop different personalities and abilities: the psychology of individual differences. Unlike many books on the structure and measurement of individual differences, this collection seeks to shed light on underlying processes. Containing contributions from international experts in their fields, Processes in Individual Differencesreviews and explores what is known about the social, biological, genetic and cognitive processes, and argues that each has a role to play in the development of intellience, personality and mood.
Author : Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135668450
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Intelligence written by Robert J. Sternberg and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike most approaches to intelligence, which rely on psychometric testing for inspiration of confirmation, this bk investigates the nature & developmnt of intelligence from an evolutionary perspective. For cognitive scientists and experimental, cognitiv
Author : Ian J. Deary
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019852417X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Looking Down on Human Intelligence written by Ian J. Deary and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are some people more mentally able than others ? In an authoritative, critical and intergrated series of review essays Professor Ian Deary inquires after the cognitive and biological foundations of human mental ability differences. Many accounts of intelligence have examined the structureand number of human mental ability differences and whether they can predict sucess in education,work and social life. Few books have taken psychometric intelligence differences as a starting point and brought together the reductionistic attempts to explain them.New to the highly acclaimed OxfordPsychology Series, Looking Down on Human Intelligence appraises the search for the origins of psychometric intelligence differences in terms of brain function parameters. The book provides an original and thought provoking guide to ancient and modern research on one of the most compelling questionsin human psychology.
Author : Donald H. Saklofske
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475755716
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)
Download or read book International Handbook of Personality and Intelligence written by Donald H. Saklofske and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking handbook, more than 60 internationally respected authorities explore the interface between intelligence and personality by bringing together a wide range of potential integrative links drawn from theory, research, measurements, and applications.
Author : Seymour W. Itzkoff
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780820413044
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Why Humans Vary in Intelligence written by Seymour W. Itzkoff and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1989-06-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume in a projected four-part series on the evolution of human intelligence, a series acknowledged by opponents and supporters alike as one of the most important recent investigations into the sources and nature of human intelligence. Professor Itzkoff first sets forth the evolutionary facts as a beacon to illuminate his biological theory of variable intelligence. Filling out the evidence from the psychological and brain sciences presented in THE FORM OF MAN and TRIUMPH OF THE INTELLIGENT, he here develops a full-scale model of the mind that more fully explains the relationship between I.Q. and the broader expressions of human intelligence as experienced in daily life. (His model of variable intelligence further delves into the historical consequences of our ancient biological and psychoneurological heritage. Issues such as gender, race, and ethnic variability are treated factually and responsibly, taking into account the full range of empirical evidence available to scholars.)The result is a theory having three complementary bodies of evidence - evolutionary, psychoneurological, and historical - building into a perspective on the factual why of human intellectual differences. These differences can best be observed in the richness and diversity of individual personality as well as in the cultures of our world. Itzkoff here takes the first tentative steps toward a biological explanation of the nature and structure of culture. WHY HUMANS VARY IN INTELLIGENCE is an appeal for the rational study of human nature, a plea to allow for further nonideological research into this most crucial area of contemporary concern.
Author : Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316583864
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Intelligence written by Robert J. Sternberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not since the landmark publication of Handbook of Human Intelligence in 1982 has the field of intelligence been more alive than it is today. Spurred by the new developments in this rapidly expanding field, Dr Sternberg has brought together a stellar list of contributors to provide a comprehensive, broad and deeply thematic review of intelligence that will be accessible to both scholar and student. The field of intelligence is lively on many fronts, and this volume provides full coverage on topics such as behavior-genetic models, evolutionary models, cognitive models, emotional intelligence, practical intelligence, and group difference. Handbook of Intelligence is largely expanded, covering areas such as animal and artificial intelligence, as well as human intelligence. It fully reflects important theoretical progress made since the early 1980s.
Author : Colin Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1444164376
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Individual Differences and Personality written by Colin Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin Cooper's 'Individual Differences' has been a favourite among lecturers and students of differential psychology since it was published in 1997. It is unique in its comprehensive coverage of both personality theories and the methodological issues associated with personality and psychometric testing. This new edition has been fully revised and expanded to include recent developments in the field. There is also a new chapter on Emotional Intelligence and expanded coverage of the Big 5 model of personality and positive psychology. Cooper also discusses influential new fields such as cognitive epidemiology and a new chapter on practical applications demonstrates how what has been learned can be applied to everyday life from recruitment to predicting whether psychopaths will reoffend. The accompanying website provides comprehensive support for both students and lecturers, including MCQs, sample exam questions, PowerPoint presentations, revision flashcards, interactive glossary, and revision summaries. An informative and enjoyable trip through personality and psychometrics, this book is essential reading for all students wishing to gain a broad understanding of this fascinating field.
Author : Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107154383
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Adaptive Intelligence written by Robert J. Sternberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High IQs don't improve the world. Adaptive intelligence does, because it prioritizes the common good over individual success.
