The Nature of Human Intelligence
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- Editor: Robert J. Sternberg, Cornell University, New York
- Date Published: January 2018
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316629642
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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.
Read more- Describes the research programs of the nineteen most eminent psychological scientists studying intelligence
- Each author answers a standardized list of questions to ensure uniformity of the issues covered in the various chapters
- The authors chosen were those most highly cited in the three recent major textbooks on human intelligence (by Hunt, Mackintosh, and Sternberg and Kaufman)
- The authors represent a wide variety of approaches to human intelligence
Reviews & endorsements
'This valuable collection by some of the most prominent scholars dealing with the study of intelligence synthesizes the vast body of knowledge surrounding psychology's most investigated concept. A brilliant and readable contribution that is bound to be a seminal contribution to our understanding of intelligence.' Joseph S. Renzulli, Director, Renzulli Center for Creativity, Gifted Education, and Talent Development and University of Connecticut
See more reviews'Intelligence has been the most impactful, enduring, and controversial topic in psychology for more than a century. What is most striking about The Nature of Human Intelligence is how vital, lively, stimulating, and enriching the field is right now. This volume's distinguished editor calls successful intelligence the ability to achieve one's life goals. By this standard, the study of intelligence has achieved its goals and will do so for generations to come. A brilliant contribution.' David Henry Feldman, Chair at Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University, Massachusetts, and President-elect, Society for the Study of Human Development
'An eclectic and irresistible potpourri from the most accomplished intelligence scholars in the world, this provocative book will teach, enlighten, and occasionally outrage the reader. It will certainly change their thoughts on intelligence.' James Kaufman, University of Connecticut
'The book conveys fundamental discoveries and new ideas that attest to the vitality of intelligence research … Books like The Nature of Human Intelligence play an important role [in] supplementing undergraduate education beyond introductory textbooks.' Richard J. Haier, University of California, Irvine
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- Date Published: January 2018
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316629642
- length: 348 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 153 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.52kg
- contains: 26 b/w illus. 5 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Intelligence as potentiality and actuality Phillip L. Ackerman
2. Hereditary ability: g is driven by experience producing drives Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr
3. Culture, sex and intelligence: descriptive and proscriptive issues Stephen J. Ceci, Donna K. Ginther and Wendy M. Williams
4. The nature of the general factor of intelligence Andrew R. A. Conway and Kristof Kovacs
5. Intelligence in Edinburgh, Scotland: bringing intelligence to life Ian J. Deary and Stuart J. Ritchie
6. Intelligence as domain-specific superior reproducible performance: the role of acquired domain-specific mechanisms in expert performance K. Anders Ericsson
7. Intelligence, society, and human autonomy James R. Flynn
8. The theory of multiple intelligences: psychological and educational perspectives Howard Gardner, Mindy,Kornhaber and Jie-Qi Chen
9. g theory: how recurring variation in human intelligence and the complexity of everyday tasks create social structure and the democratic dilemma Linda S. Gottfredson
10. Puzzled intelligence: looking for missing pieces Elena L. Grigorenko
11. A view from the brain Richard J. Haier
12. Is critical thinking a better model of intelligence? Diane F. Halpern and Heather A. Butler
13. Many pathways, one destination: IQ tests, intelligent testing, and the continual push for more equitable assessments Alan S. Kaufman
14. My quest to understand human intelligence Scott Barry Kaufman
15. Mapping the outer envelope of intelligence: a multidimensional view from the top David Lubinski
16. The intelligence of nations Richard Lynn
17. Intelligences about things and intelligences about people John D. Mayer
18. Mechanisms of working memory capacity and fluid intelligence and their common dependence on executive attention Zach Shipstead and Randall W. Engle
19. Successful intelligence in theory, research, and practice Robert J. Sternberg
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