| Description |
774 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Century psychology series
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| Contents |
Classification of men according to their natural gifts -- Co-relations and their measurement, chiefly from anthropometric data -- Some currents and undercurrents in psychology -- Correlation of mental and physical tests -- Proof and measurement of association between two things -- "General intelligence" objectively determined and measured -- Measurement of twins -- Development of intelligence in children -- Relation of accuracy in sensory discrimination to general intelligence -- Racial differences in mental traits -- Intelligence quotient of francis galton in childhood -- Group examinations: alpha and beta -- Occupational-intelligence standards -- Comparison of the ranks of american states in army alpha and in social-economic status -- Differential action upon the sexes of forces which tend to segregate the feebleminded -- Mental and physical correspondense in twins -- Intelligence as the tests test it -- Intellectual resemblance of twins -- Mental and physical traits of a thousand gifted children -- Mental age concept -- Abilities of man -- Group factors -- Changes in mental capacity after maturity -- Intelligence tests of immigrant groups -- Intelligence and physique -- Promise of youth -- Is mental resemblance related to physical resemblance in sibling pairs? -- Correlation of intelligence scores and schronological age from early to late maturity -- Theory of multiple factors -- Race differences studied in different environments -- Nature-nurture and intelligence -- Age factor in mental organization -- Changes in adult intelligence -- Growth of vocabulary in later maturity -- Influence of the test upon the nature of mental decline as a function of age -- Intra-race testing and negro intelligence -- Measuring intelligence -- Intelligence as a selective factor in rural-urban migration -- Social change: a neglected factor in psychological studies of the life span -- Factors affecting intellidence test performance of whites and negros in the rural south -- Relative potency of the nursery school and the statistical laboratory in boosting iq -- Heredity and environment: twins -- Primary mental abilities of children -- Comparative study of the intelligence of east tennessee mountain children -- Intelligence-test scores of northern and southern white and negro recruits in 1918 -- Army general classification test -- Verbal intelligence of the american adult -- Development theory of intelligence -- Sex differences in primary mental abilities -- British army and navy research on intelligence -- Soldier intelligence in world wars I and II -- Nature of psychological "traits" -- Psychological implications of factor analysis -- Intelligence test scores as indicative of ability to learn -- Final follow-up study of one hundred adopted children -- Cognitive, conative, and non-intellective intellifence -- Biological intelligence -- Negro intelligence and selective migration -- Influence of schooling upon iq -- Nonintellectual test -- Experimental study of the inheritance of intelligence -- Intelligence, fertility, and the future -- On the growth of intelligence -- Fluid and crystallized intelligence -- Intellectual defect and musical talent -- Three faces of intellect. |
| Summary |
"This book of readings is designed to meet what we feel is a critical need in contemporary courses in tests and measurements and differential psychology. The two editors have taught one or another of these courses more than one hundred times. We hold that at least three requisite things--good psychological judgment, an elusive quality called perspective, and a grasp of the strategies of psychological measurement--are fostered most rapidly when students encounter original research papers in their historical sequence. In searching for a topic to serve as a model problem in measurement we quickly settled on intelligence. In selecting this one topic it is obvious that we have no intention of supplanting current textbooks, which, in fact, we believe are of very high quality. However, these textbooks by their very nature cannot give the student the kind of understanding of the work and the workers that we are striving for here. It is our conviction that this book will supplement the standard texts in a valuable way for students with inquiring minds and an intellectual curiosity about the origins of the evidence upon which our present knowledge of intelligence rests. Despite our efforts to include examples of most of the important methodologies, our sampling of modern statistical methods is weak, unavoidably so, we believe, in a book that preserves a reasonable size. We do claim, however, that the interplay between problems and methodologies is adequately and tellingly demonstrated. Most of the "hot" issues, such as racial and national differences, have been touched on at least once. In the preparation of this book we have considered hundreds of other studies, but in the end we have been forced to settle on this set, discarding many papers of equal value. Overall, we do not claim that these are the best, and certainly not the only, readings that might have been included. We do feel, however, that those we have selected are valuable, thought-provoking, and representative of the chief contributions to the field"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved). |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. |
| Form |
Also issued in print. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Intellect.
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Intelligence.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Intellect. (OCoLC)fst00975732
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| Added Author |
Paterson, Donald G. (Donald Gildersleeve), 1892-1961, editor.
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Jenkins, James J., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Original (DLC) 61009248 |
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