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Intelligence - A New Look (Hardcover)
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Intelligence - A New Look (Hardcover)
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The concept and measurement of intelligence present a curious
paradox. On the one hand, scientists, fluent in the complex
statistics of intelligence-testing theories, devote their lives to
exploration of cognitive abilities. On the other hand, the media,
and inexpert, cross-disciplinary scientists decry the effort as
socially divisive and useless in practice. In the past decade, our
understanding of testing has radically changed. Better selected
samples have extended evidence on the role of heredity and
environment in intelligence. There is new evidence on biology and
behavior. Advances in molecular genetics have enabled us to
discover DMA markers which can identify and isolate a gene for
simple genetic traits, paving the way for the study of multiple
gene traits, such as intelligence. Hans Eysenck believes these
recent developments approximate a general paradigm which could form
the basis for future research. He explores the many special
abilities verbal, numerical, visuo-spatial memory that contribute
to our cognitive behavior. He examines pathbreaking work on
"multiple" intelligence, and the notion of "social" or "practical"
intelligence and considers whether these new ideas have any
scientific meaning. Eysenck also includes a study of creativity and
intuition as well as the production of works of art and science
identifying special factors that interact with general intelligence
to produce predictable effects in the actual world. The work that
Hans Eysenck has put together over the last fifty years in research
into individual differences constitutes most of what anyone means
by the structure and biological basis of personality and
intelligence. A giant in the field of psychology, Eysenck almost
single-handedly restructured and reordered his profession.
Intelligence is Eysenck's final book and the third in a series of
his works from Transaction.
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