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Informationen zum Autor ARTHUR R. JENSEN is Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley. During the 40 years of his tenure at Berkeley, he has been a prolific researcher in the psychology of human learning, individual differences in cognitive abilities, psychometrics, behavioral genetics, and mental chronometry. His work, published in six earlier books and some 400 articles in scientific and professional journals, has placed him among the most frequently cited figures in contemporary psychology. Klappentext Jensen provides a comprehensive treatment of one of the major constructs of behavioral science-general mental ability-labeled 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, most general source of differences between individuals and between certain subpopulations.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 scholars and researchers in the brain sciences as well as education, sociology, anthropology, evolutionary psychology, economics, and public policy is clearly evident in this, the most comprehensive treatment of g ever published. Zusammenfassung Jensen provides a comprehensive treatment of one of the major constructs of behavioral science—general mental ability—labeled the g factor by its discoverer, Charles Spearman. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceA Little HistoryThe Discovery of gThe Trouble with "Intelligence"Models and Characteristics of gChallenges to gBiological Correlates to gThe Heritability of gInformation Processing and gThe Practical Validity of gConstruct, Vehicles, and MeasurementsPopulation Differences in gPopulation Differences in g: Hypothesized CausesSex Differences in gThe g NexusAppendix A: Spearman's "Law of Diminishing Returns"Appendix B: Method of Correlated VectorsAppendix C: Multivariate Analyses of a NexusReferencesIndex...
