IQ and Human Intelligence

✍ Scribed by N. J. Mackintosh

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 427
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 extremely 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
1. The early development and uses of IQ tests
2. Psychometric theories of intelligence
3. The heritability of IQ
4. Environmental effects on IQ
5. Group differences
6. Factor analysis and the structure of human abilities
7. The search for general intelligence: simple behavioural and neurological correlates of IQ
8. The search for cognitive operations underlying specific components of IQ: verbal and spatial abilities
9. Fluid intelligence, reasoning, and problem solving
10. Theories of intelligence
Epilogue
References
Author index
Subject index