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Originally published in 1976, the theme of the book is an examination of cognitive and adaptive processes involved in intelligent behavior and a look at how these processes might be related to tested intelligence.
List of contents
Preface. 1. Introduction: Changing Conceptions of Intelligence
Lauren B. Resnick Part I: Cognition and Intelligence in the Psychometric Tradition 2. The Intelligence We Test - An Evolving Concept
Leona E. Tyler 3. Psychometric Tests as Cognitive Tasks: A New "Structure of Intellect"
John B. Carroll 4. Who Needs General Intelligence?
William W. Cooley Part II: Computer Simulation in the Study of Intelligence 5. Identifying Basic Abilities Underlying Intelligent Performance of Complex Tasks
Herbert A. Simon 6. Steps Toward the Simulation of Intellect Development
David Klahr 7. General, Academic, and Artificial Intelligence
Ulric Neisser Part III: Intelligence as Adaptation 8. Human Intelligence as Adaptation: An Ethological Approach
William R. Charlesworth 9. The Nature of Intelligent Behavior: Questions Raised by Cross-Cultural Studies
Jacqueline J. Goodnow 10. Culture, Technology, and Intellect
David R. Olson Part IV: Basic Processes in Intelligence 11. Problem Solving and Intelligence
Lauren B. Resnick and Robert Glaser 12. Metacognitive Aspects of Problem Solving
John H. Flavell 13. Varieties of Cognitive Power
Earl Hunt 14. Language and Intelligence
Janellen Huttenlocher 15. Language Comprehension and the Deverbalization of Intelligence
Charles A. Perfetti Part V: General Considerations for the Nature of Intelligence 16. Intelligence and Cognitive Psychology
W. K. Estes 17. The Nature of "The Nature of Intelligence"
James F. Voss 18. Ordinal Scales of Infant Development and the Nature of Intelligence
J. McVicker Hunt 19. A Factor Model for Research on Intelligence and Problem Solving
Lloyd G. Humphreys 20. The Processes of Intelligence and Education
Robert Glaser. Author Index. Subject Index.
About the author
Lauren B. Resnick
Summary
Originally published in 1976, the theme of the book is an examination of cognitive and adaptive processes involved in intelligent behavior and a look at how these processes might be related to tested intelligence.
