Cognition and Intelligence
Identifying the Mechanisms of the Mind
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- Robert J. Sternberg, Cornell University, New York
- Jean E. Pretz, Yale University, Connecticut
- Date Published: December 2004
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521534796
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Written by well-known experts, this book is about psychological research on intelligence and the various factors that influence its development. The volume summarizes and synthesizes the past 30 years of literature on intelligence. Each author takes a different experimental approach to the subject, spanning research on neuroscience and perceptual speed to research on problem solving and metacognition.
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- Summary and synthesis of field of cognition and intelligence
- Includes top-down and bottom-up approaches in same volume
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"The contributors, all well-known theorists and researchers, place their topics in context (then and now), clarifying how a particular approach construes the role cognition plays in intelligence. Highly recommended." D.S. Dunn, Moravian College, CHOICE
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- Date Published: December 2004
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521534796
- length: 360 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.53kg
- contains: 27 b/w illus. 8 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Information processing and intelligence: where we are and where we are going Earl Hunt
2. Mental chronometry and the unification of differential psychology Arthur Jensen
3. Reductionism vs charting
ways of examining the role of lower-order cognitive processes in intelligence Lazar Stankov
4. Basic information processing and the psychophysiology of intelligence Aljoscha Neubauer and Andreas Fink
5. The neural bases of intelligence: a perspective based on functional neuroimaging Sharlene D. Newman and Marcel Adam Just
6. The role of working memory in higher-level cognition
domain specific vs domain-general perspectives David Z. Hambrick, Michael J. Kane and Randall Engle
7. Higher-order cognition and intelligence Edward Necka and Jaroslaw Orzechowski
8. Ability determinants of individual differences in skilled performance Phillip Ackerman
9. Complex problem solving and intelligence: empirical relation and causal direction Dorit Wenke, Peter A. Frensch and Joachim Funke
10. Intelligence as smart heuristics Markus Raab and Gerd Gigerenzer
11. The role of transferable knowledge in intelligence Susan Barnett, Stephen J. Ceci and Hwakin Yang
12. Reasoning abilities David Lohman
13. Measuring human intelligence with artificial intelligence: adaptive item generation Susan Embretson
14. Marrying intelligence and cognition: a developmental view Mike Anderson
15. From description to explanation in cognitive aging Timothy A. Salthouse
16. Unifying the field: cognition and intelligence Jean Pretz and Robert J. Sternberg.
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