The Nature of Human Intelligence

✍ Scribed by Robert J. Sternberg

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"The study of human intelligence features many points of consensus, but there are also many different perspectives. In this unique book Robert J. Sternberg invites the nineteen most highly cited psychological scientists in the leading textbooks on human intelligence to share their research programs and findings. Each chapter answers a standardized set of questions on the measurement, investigation, and development of intelligence - and the outcome represents a wide range of substantive and methodological emphases including psychometric, cognitive, expertise-based, developmental, neuropsychological, genetic, cultural, systems, and group-difference approaches. This is an exciting and valuable course book for upper-level students to learn from the originators of the key contemporary ideas in intelligence research about how they think about their work and about the field."

'This valuable collection by some of the most prominent scholars dealing with the study of intelligence synthesizes the vast body of knowledge surrounding psychology's most investigated concept. A brilliant and readable contribution that is bound to be a seminal contribution to our understanding of intelligence.' Joseph S. Renzulli, Director, Renzulli Center for Creativity, Gifted Education, and Talent Development and University of Connecticut

'Intelligence has been the most impactful, enduring, and controversial topic in psychology for more than a century. What is most striking about The Nature of Human Intelligence is how vital, lively, stimulating, and enriching the field is right now. This volume's distinguished editor calls successful intelligence the ability to achieve one's life goals. By this standard, the study of intelligence has achieved its goals and will do so for generations to come. A brilliant contribution.' David Henry Feldman, Chair at Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University, Massachusetts, and President-elect, Society for the Study of Human Development

'An eclectic and irresistible potpourri from the most accomplished intelligence scholars in the world, this provocative book will teach, enlighten, and occasionally outrage the reader. It will certainly change their thoughts on intelligence.' James Kaufman, University of Connecticut

✦ Table of Contents

• List of Contributors
• Preface
• "Intelligence as Potentiality and Actuality", Phillip L. Ackerman
• "Hereditary Ability: g Is Driven by Experience-Producing Drives", Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr.
• "Culture, Sex, and Intelligence", Stephen J. Ceci, Donna K. Ginther, Shulamit Kahn, & Wendy M. Williams
• "The Nature of the General Factor of Intelligence", Andrew R. A. Conway & Kristof Kovacs
• "Intelligence in Edinburgh, Scotland: Bringing Intelligence to Life", Ian J. Deary & Stuart J. Ritchie
• "Intelligence as Domain-Specific Superior Reproducible Performance: The Role of Acquired Domain-Specific Mechanisms in Expert Performance", K. Anders Ericsson
• "Intelligence, Society, and Human Autonomy", James R. Flynn
• "The Theory of Multiple Intelligences: Psychological and Educational Perspectives", Howard Gardner, Mindy Kornhaber, & Jie-Qi Chen
• "g Theory: How Recurring Variation in Human Intelligence and the Complexity of Everyday Tasks Create Social Structure and the Democratic Dilemma", Linda S. Gottfredson
• "Puzzled Intelligence: Looking for Missing Pieces", Elena L. Grigorenko
• "A View from the Brain", Richard J. Haier
• "Is Critical Thinking a Better Model of Intelligence?", Diane F. Halpern & Heather A. Butler
• "Many Pathways, One Destination: IQ Tests, Intelligent Testing, and the Continual Push for More Equitable Assessments", Alan S. Kaufman
• "My Quest to Understand Human Intelligence", Scott Barry Kaufman
• "Individual Differences at the Top: Mapping the Outer Envelope of Intelligence", David Lubinski
• "The Intelligence of Nations", Richard Lynn
• "Intelligences about Things and Intelligences about People", John D. Mayer
• "Mechanisms of Working Memory Capacity and Fluid Intelligence and Their Common Dependence on Executive Attention", Zach Shipstead & Randall W. Engle
• "Successful Intelligence in Theory, Research, and Practice", Robert J. Sternberg
• Index

✦ Subjects

intelligence, behavioral genetics, heritability, neuroscience, PFIT, SMPY, Scottish Survey, factor analysis, cross-country comparisons, national IQ, working memory, fluid intelligence, Earl Hunt