Looking Down on Human Intelligence: From Psychometrics to the Brain
Awards:   Winner of Winner of the British Psychological Society Book Award 2002.
Author:   Ian Deary (Professor of Differential Psychology, Professor of Differential Psychology, University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   36
ISBN:  

9780198524175


Pages:   392
Publication Date:   21 September 2000
Format:   Hardback
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Looking Down on Human Intelligence: From Psychometrics to the Brain


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  • Winner of Winner of the British Psychological Society Book Award 2002.

Overview

Why are some people more mentally able than others ? In an authoritative, critical and intergrated series of review essays Professor Ian Deary inquires after the cognitive and biological foundations of human mental ability differences. Many accounts of intelligence have examined the structure and number of human mental ability differences and whether they can predict sucess in education,work and social life. Few books have taken psychometric intelligence differences as a starting point and brought together the reductionistic attempts to explain them.New to the highly acclaimed Oxford Psychology Series, Looking Down on Human Intelligence appraises the search for the origins of psychometric intelligence differences in terms of brain function parameters. The book provides an original and thought provoking guide to ancient and modern research on one of the most compelling questions in human psychology.

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Author:   Ian Deary (Professor of Differential Psychology, Professor of Differential Psychology, University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   36
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9780198524175


ISBN 10:   019852417
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   21 September 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Little 'g' and friends 2: Four intelligent reductionists 3: The discriminating mind 4: Vade-Mecum 5: Cake-slicing 6: Faster, Smarter 7: Quick on the Uptake 8: Wisdom from the ages 9: Wetware 10: Den finger in die wunde legen References: Index:

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