The Nature of Human Intelligence

Provides an overview of leading scholars' approaches to understanding the nature of intelligence, its measurement, its investigation, and its development.

Robert J. Sternberg (Edited by)

9781316629642, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 January 2018

348 pages, 26 b/w illus. 5 tables
22.9 x 15.3 x 2 cm, 0.52 kg

'The book conveys fundamental discoveries and new ideas that attest to the vitality of intelligence research … Books like The Nature of Human Intelligence play an important role [in] supplementing undergraduate education beyond introductory textbooks.' Richard J. Haier, University of California, Irvine

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.

1. Intelligence as potentiality and actuality Phillip L. Ackerman
2. Hereditary ability: g is driven by experience producing drives Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr
3. Culture, sex and intelligence: descriptive and proscriptive issues Stephen J. Ceci, Donna K. Ginther and Wendy M. Williams
4. The nature of the general factor of intelligence Andrew R. A. Conway and Kristof Kovacs
5. Intelligence in Edinburgh, Scotland: bringing intelligence to life Ian J. Deary and Stuart J. Ritchie
6. Intelligence as domain-specific superior reproducible performance: the role of acquired domain-specific mechanisms in expert performance K. Anders Ericsson
7. Intelligence, society, and human autonomy James R. Flynn
8. The theory of multiple intelligences: psychological and educational perspectives Howard Gardner, Mindy,Kornhaber and Jie-Qi Chen
9. g theory: how recurring variation in human intelligence and the complexity of everyday tasks create social structure and the democratic dilemma Linda S. Gottfredson
10. Puzzled intelligence: looking for missing pieces Elena L. Grigorenko
11. A view from the brain Richard J. Haier
12. Is critical thinking a better model of intelligence? Diane F. Halpern and Heather A. Butler
13. Many pathways, one destination: IQ tests, intelligent testing, and the continual push for more equitable assessments Alan S. Kaufman
14. My quest to understand human intelligence Scott Barry Kaufman
15. Mapping the outer envelope of intelligence: a multidimensional view from the top David Lubinski
16. The intelligence of nations Richard Lynn
17. Intelligences about things and intelligences about people John D. Mayer
18. Mechanisms of working memory capacity and fluid intelligence and their common dependence on executive attention Zach Shipstead and Randall W. Engle
19. Successful intelligence in theory, research, and practice Robert J. Sternberg
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Subject Areas: Educational psychology [JNC], The self, ego, identity, personality [JMS], Intelligence & reasoning [JMRN], Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR], Humanistic psychology [JMAN]