The G Factor: The Science of Mental Ability - Rilegato

Jensen, Arthur Robert

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0275961036 ISBN 13: 9780275961039

Casa editrice: Praeger Pub Text, 1998

Riassunto

The g factor--general mental ability--is the major construct for understanding both individual differences and the average differences between groups (race and sex) in educational and occupational attainment. It is also germane to social issues of national importance. Jensen fully and clearly explains the psychometric, statistical, genetic, and physiological basis of g, as well as the major theoretical challenges to the concept. For decades a key construct in differential psychology, the g factor's significance for the brain sciences as well as for education, sociology, anthropology, evolutionary psychology, economics, and public policy is clearly evident in this, the most comprehensive treatment of g available.

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L'autore:

ARTHUR R. JENSEN is Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley.

Product Description:

This text provides a comprehensive treatment of one of the major constructs of behavioural science - general mental ability - labelled the "g factor" by its discoverer, Charles Spearman. The "g factor" is about individual differences in mental abilities. In factor analyses of any and every large and diverse collection of measures of mental abilities, however varied the content of knowledge and skills they call upon, "g" emerges as the largest and most general source of differences between individuals and between certain subpopulations. The author explains the psychometric, statistical, genetic and physiological basis of "g", as well as the major theoretical challenges to the concept. For decades a key construct in researchers in the brain sciences as well as education, sociology, anthropology, evolutionary psychology, economics, and public policy is clearly evident in this treatment of "g".

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• Editore: Praeger Pub Text
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0275961036
• ISBN 13: 9780275961039
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 648