Looking Down on Human Intelligence: From Psychometrics to the Brain
Online ISBN:
9780191712531
Print ISBN:
9780198524175
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Book
Looking Down on Human Intelligence: From Psychometrics to the Brain
Published:
21 September 2000
Online ISBN:
9780191712531
Print ISBN:
9780198524175
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Contents
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Front Matter
- Expand 1 Little g and friends: An exposition of psychometric intelligence differences. The anatomy (or geography) of that which has to be explained
- Expand 2 Four intelligent reductionists: Looking down on human intelligence from Socrates to Spearman
- Expand 3 The discriminating mind: Intelligence and sensory discrimination in the early twentieth century, and the more recent rise of joint experimental–differential approaches to human mental ability differences
- Expand 4 Vade-mecum: Desperately seeking a mental cytology
- Expand 5 Cake-slicing: Cognitive reductionism with self-sufficiency
- Expand 6 Faster, smarter? Reaction times: raking around in cognitive psychology
- Expand 7 Quick on the uptake: Inspection times: raking around in psychophysics
- Expand 8 Wisdom from the ages: Slowing of speed of information processing is cognitive ageing!?
- Expand 9 Wetware: Reaching for the brain: raking around in biological sciences
- Expand 10 Den Finger in die Wunde legen: Avoiding ‘cargo cult science’ and ‘the glass bead game’
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End Matter
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