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Title The rising curve : long-term gains in IQ and related measures / edited by Ulric Neisser.

Publication Info. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [1998]
©1998

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  153.93 R595R    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xv, 415 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series APA science volumes
APA science volumes.
Note Based on papers presented at a conference held in the spring of 1996 at Emory University.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Introduction : rising test scores and what they mean / Ulric Neisser -- IQ gains over time : toward finding the causes / James R. Flynn -- Environmental complexity and the Flynn effect / Carmi Schooler -- The cultural evolution of IQ / Patricia M. Greenfield -- Are we raising smarter children today? School- and home-related influences on IQ / Wendy M. Williams -- The role of nutrition in the development of intelligence / Marian Sigman and Shannon E. Whaley -- Nutrition
and the worldwide rise in IQ scores / Reynaldo Martorell -- In support of the nutrition theory / Richard Lynn -- Trends in Black-white test-score differentials : I. uses and misuses of NAEP/SAT data / Robert M. Hauser -- Exploring the rapid rise in Black achievement scores in the United States (1970-1990) / David W. Grissmer ... [et al.] -- The shrinking gap between high- and low-scoring groups : current trends and possible causes / Stephen J. Ceci, Tina B. Rosenblum
and Matthew Kumpf -- Trends in Black-white test-score differentials : II. the WORDSUM vocabulary test / Min-Hsiung Huang and Robert M. Hauser -- The decline of genotypic intelligence / Richard Lynn -- Problems in inferring dysgenic trends for intelligence / Irwin D. Waldman -- Differential fertility by IQ and the IQ distribution of a population / Samuel H. Preston -- Whither dysgenics? Comments on Lynn and Preston / John C. Loehlin.
Subject Intelligence levels -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Intelligence levels.
Intellect -- Genetic aspects.
Intelligence -- genetics -- United States.
Black or African American -- United States.
Intelligence Tests -- United States.
Added Author Neisser, Ulric.
American Psychological Association.
ISBN 1557985030 hardcover alkaline paper
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