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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