What is intelligence?
Subtitle: beyond the Flynn effect
By: James R. Flynn.
Edition: 1st expanded pbk. ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780521741477
Subjects: Intellect
Description: The 'Flynn Effect' refers to Professor James Flynn's renowned research into the massive increase in IQ test scores over the course of the 20th century. But do rising IQs actually mean rising intelligence?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-251) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: A bombshell in a letter box; title: Beyond the Flynn effect; title: Towards a new theory of intelligence; title: Testing the Dickens/Flynn model; title: Why did it take so long?; title: IQ gains can kill; title: What if the gains are over?; title: Knowing our ancestors; title: The art of writing cognitive history; title: About GUT : the grand unification theory of intelligence; title: Howard Gardner and the use of words.