Iq+human Intelligence

0198523688. BRAND NEW, FLAWLESS COPY, NEVER OPENED--419 pages; TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1 The early development and uses of IQ tests 1 * 2 Psychometric theories of intelligence 27 * [more]

0198523688. BRAND NEW, FLAWLESS COPY, NEVER OPENED--419 pages; TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1 The early development and uses of IQ tests 1 * 2 Psychometric theories of intelligence 27 * 3 The heritability of IQ 65 * 4 Environmental effects on IQ 103 * 5 Group differences 143 * 6 Factor analysis and the structure of human abilities 200 * 7 The search for general intelligence: simple behavioural and neurological correlates of IQ 231 * 8 The search for cognitive operations underlying specific components of IQ: verbal and spatial abilities 266 * 9 Fluid intelligence, reasoning, and problem solving 297 * 10 Theories of intelligence 331 * Epilogue 373 * References 381 * Author index 409 * Subject index 415. --DESCRIPTION: The study and measurement of human intelligence is one of the most controversial subjects in psychology. For much of its history, the focus has been on differences between people, what it means for one individual to be more intelligent than the other, and how such differences might have arisen. With the emphasis on these issues, the efforts to understand the general nature of intelligence have been obscured. The author provides clear, comprehensive, and expremely readable introduction to this difficult subject. In addition to a discussion of the traditional topics raised by IQ tests, this book attempts to bring the theory and data of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience to bear on some of these other, equally important scientific questions.[less]