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The study of human intelligence features many points of consensus, but there are also many different perspectives. In this unique book Robert J. Sternberg invites the nineteen most highly cited psychological scientists in the leading textbooks on human intelligence to share their research programs and findings. Each chapter answers a standardized set of questions on the measurement, investigation, and development of intelligence - and the outcome represents a wide range of substantive and methodological emphases including psychometric, cognitive, expertise-based, developmental, neuropsychological, genetic, cultural, systems, and group-difference approaches. This is an exciting and valuable course book for upper-level students to learn from the originators of the key contemporary ideas in intelligence research about how they think about their work and about the field.
Describes the research programs of the nineteen most eminent psychological scientists studying intelligence
Each author answers a standardized list of questions to ensure uniformity of the issues covered in the various chapters
The authors chosen were those most highly cited in the three recent major textbooks on human intelligence (by Hunt, Mackintosh, and Sternberg and Kaufman)
The authors represent a wide variety of approaches to human intelligence
1. Intelligence as potentiality and actuality Phillip L. Ackerman
2. Hereditary ability: g is driven by experience producing drives Thomas J. Bouchard, JrIndex.
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The study of human intelligence features many points of consensus, but there are also many different perspectives. In this unique book Robert J. Sternberg invites the nineteen most highly cited psychological scientists in the leading textbooks on human intelligence to share their research programs and findings. Each chapter answers a standardized set of questions on the measurement, investigation, and development of intelligence - and the outcome represents a wide range of substantive and methodological emphases including psychometric, cognitive, expertise-based, developmental, neuropsychological, genetic, cultural, systems, and group-difference approaches. This is an exciting and valuable course book for upper-level students to learn from the originators of the key contemporary ideas in intelligence research about how they think about their work and about the field.
Describes the research programs of the nineteen most eminent psychological scientists studying intelligence
Each author answers a standardized list of questions to ensure uniformity of the issues covered in the various chapters
The authors chosen were those most highly cited in the three recent major textbooks on human intelligence (by Hunt, Mackintosh, and Sternberg and Kaufman)
The authors represent a wide variety of approaches to human intelligence
