IQ in Question: The Truth about Intelligence - Brossura

Howe, Michael J.A.

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ISBN 10: 076195578X ISBN 13: 9780761955788

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997

Riassunto

`In this remarkably economical, clear and informed book, Mike Howe... sets about unravelling the formidable semantic, logical and empirical knots into which IQ testers and their supporters have tied themselves.... Howe suggests that we have, for decades, been asking the wrong kinds of questions. He points to the number of alternative, theoretically richer, views of human intelligence that don't reduce all to a single dimension... this is rendered with an easy, readable style which assumes no previous technical knowledge' - British Journal of Educational Psychology

In this provocative and accessible book, Michael Howe exposes serious flaws in our most widely accepted beliefs about intelligence. He shows that cr

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L'autore

Michael J A Howe is Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter. He has written widely about human intelligence and his publications include The Origins of Exceptional Abilities (1990) and Fragments of Genius (1989).

Contenuti

Introduction
Doubtful Beginnings
Can IQ Be Increased?
Race and Intelligence
Is High IQ a Necessity?
Using IQ Scores To Make Predictions
Genetics and Intelligence
Newer Approaches to Intelligence
Raising Children's Intelligence
Twelve Well-Known `Facts' about Intelligence Which Are Not True

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 076195578X
• ISBN 13: 9780761955788
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 184