Looking Down on Human Intelligence: From Psychometrics to the Brain: 36 - Rilegato

Deary, Ian

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ISBN 10: 019852417X ISBN 13: 9780198524175

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2000

Riassunto

Why are some people more mentally able than others ? In an authoritative, critical and intergrated series of review essays Professor Ian Deary inquires after the cognitive and biological foundations of human mental ability differences. Many accounts of intelligence have examined the structure and number of human mental ability differences and whether they can predict sucess in education,work and social life. Few books have taken psychometric intelligence differences as a starting point and brought together the reductionistic attempts to explain them.New to the highly acclaimed Oxford Psychology Series, Looking Down on Human Intelligence appraises the search for the origins of psychometric intelligence differences in terms of brain function parameters. The book provides an original and thought provoking guide to ancient and modern research on one of the most compelling questions in human psychology.

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Contenuti:

• Introduction
• 1: Little 'g' and friends
• 2: Four intelligent reductionists
• 3: The discriminating mind
• 4: Vade-Mecum
• 5: Cake-slicing
• 6: Faster, Smarter
• 7: Quick on the Uptake
• 8: Wisdom from the ages
• 9: Wetware
• 10: Den finger in die wunde legen
• References:
• Index:

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 019852417X
• ISBN 13: 9780198524175
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 392