
Reflections on the Concept of Intelligence
JAI Press Inc.
Will be published approx. on 8. March 1997
Book
Hardback
308 pages
978-0-7623-0105-8 (ISBN)
Description
This study focuses on three issues which have been recurrent in the literature on intelligence during the last century: general intellectual capacity; the g factor; and how to influence the development of intelligence. The topics range from neuropsychology to intelligence, personality and information processing. Contributions by scholars from Canada, Europe and the United States are included, representing diverse view points in the field of research into the g factor and into the possibility of raising a person's level of intelligence. The first chapter provides an in-depth summary of research into differences between black and white performances on psychometric mental ability tests, while the second chapter provides a review of the research into race and sex differences in brain size and cognitive ability. Other topics covered include: the relationship between the g factor and infant intelligence; the cognitive correlates of intelligence and personality; an historical overview of the founders of the scientific study of intelligence, Binet and Galton; and a review of the mental speed approach. The volume concludes with a discussion of the effects of intervention programmes on accelerating the development of intelligence within the context of Piaget's criteria for the assessment of durable training methods.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
628 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7623-0105-8 (9780762301058)
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Content
Psychometric g and the race question (A.R. Jensen). Race and sex differences in brain size and cognitive ability (J.P. Rushton, C. Davison Ankney). On the comparative generality of g (C. Locurto). Infant cognition and general intelligence (D. Wayne Mitchell, J. Colombo). Intelligence: the new look (H.J. Eysenck). The mental speed approach to the assessment of intelligence (A.C. Neubauer). Intelligence, personality and information-processing: an adaptive perspective (G. Matthews). The concept of "intelligence" within neuropsychology: comments and reflections (M. Levander). Contextual and personal sources of individual differences in intelligence: empirical results (R. Fernandez-Ballesteros et al.). On the boundaries of the acceleration of the development of intelligence (J. Kingma, W. Tomic).