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A study that focuses on three issues which have been recurrent in the literature on intelligence during the last century: general intellectual capacity; the g factor; and how to influence the development of intelligence. It includes topics ranging from neuropsychology to intelligence, personality and information processing.
List of contents
Psychometric g and the race question (A.R. Jensen). Race and sex differences in brain size and cognitive ability (J.P. Rushton, C. Davison Ankney). On the comparative generality of g (C. Locurto). Infant cognition and general intelligence (D. Wayne Mitchell, J. Colombo). Intelligence: the new look (H.J. Eysenck). The mental speed approach to the assessment of intelligence (A.C. Neubauer). Intelligence, personality and information-processing: an adaptive perspective (G. Matthews). The concept of "intelligence" within neuropsychology: comments and reflections (M. Levander). Contextual and personal sources of individual differences in intelligence: empirical results (R. Fernandez-Ballesteros et al.). On the boundaries of the acceleration of the development of intelligence (J. Kingma, W. Tomic).
Summary
A study that focuses on three issues which have been recurrent in the literature on intelligence during the last century: general intellectual capacity; the g factor; and how to influence the development of intelligence. It includes topics ranging from neuropsychology to intelligence, personality and information processing.
