Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction
โ Ian J. Deary
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2020
๐ OUP Oxford
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Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 132
- Series
- Very short introductions 39
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โฆ Table of Contents
Content: Preface
List of illustrations
A word about correlation
1. To see 'g' or not to see 'g': How many types of intelligence are there?
2. Ageing and intelligence - senility or sagacity? What happens to mental abilities as we grow older?
3. Brainy? Why are some people cleverer than others?
4. 'They **** you up your Mum and Dad': Are intelligence differences a result of genes or environments or both?
5. The (b)right man for the job: Does intelligence matter?
6. The lands of the rising IQ: Is intelligence changing generation by generation?
7. Twelve angry men: Getting experts to agree about human intelligence differences
Further reading
Index
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