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The Science of Human Intelligence
An exploration of fascinating scientific research about what intelligence is, where it comes from, and how it might be enhanced.
International Handbook of Intelligence
An international handbook of intelligence.
Extending Intelligence
This volume presents research from a variety of perspectives on the enhancement of human intelligence. It is organized around five themes - enhancement via instruction; enhancement via development (over the life cycle); enhancement over time; enhancement via new constructs; and new directions in enhancement. Three key issues are addressed: First, although most of the scientific research on intelligence has concerned what it is, this volume attends to the consequential societal and economic issue concerns of whether it can be increased, and how. Second, intellectual enhancement is particularly important when targeted to minorities and the poor, groups that have typically performed relatively ...
The Neuroscience of Intelligence
An accessible review of genetic and neuroimaging research that explains what determines intelligence and how we might enhance it.
Human Intelligence
This book is a comprehensive survey of our scientific knowledge about human intelligence, written by a researcher who has spent more than 30 years studying the field, receiving a Lifetime Contribution award from the International Society for Intelligence. Human Intelligence takes a non-ideological view of a topic in which, too often, writings are dominated by a single theory or social viewpoint. The book discusses the conceptual status of intelligence as a collection of cognitive skills that include, but also go beyond, those skills evaluated by conventional tests; intelligence tests and their analysis; contemporary theories of intelligence; biological and social causes of intelligence; the importance of intelligence in social, industrial, and educational spheres; the role of intelligence in determining success in life, both inside and outside educational settings; and the nature and causes of variations in intelligence across age, gender, and racial and ethnic groups.
General and Specific Mental Abilities
The history of testing mental abilities has seen the dominance of two contrasting approaches, psychometrics and neuropsychology. These two traditions have different theories and methodologies, but overlap considerably in the tests they use. Historically, psychometrics has emphasized the primacy of a general factor, while neuropsychology has emphasized specific abilities that are dissociable. This issue about the nature of human mental abilities is important for many practical concerns. Questions such as gender, ethnic, and age-related differences in mental abilities are relatively easy to address if they are due to a single dominant trait. Presumably such a trait can be measured with any collection of complex cognitive tests. If there are many specific mental abilities, these would be much harder to measure and associated social issues would be more difficult to resolve. The relative importance of general and specific abilities also has implications for educational practices. This book includes the diverse opinions of experts from several fields including psychometrics, neuropsychology, speech language and hearing, and applied psychology.
Advances in Biolinguistics
Biolinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks the rapprochement between linguistics and biology. Linking theoretical linguistics, theoretical biology, genetics, neuroscience and cognitive psychology, this book offers a collection of chapters situating the enterprise conceptually, highlighting both the promises and challenges of the field, and chapters focusing on the challenges and prospects of taking interdisciplinarity seriously. It provides concrete illustrations of some of the cutting-edge research in biolinguistics and piques the interest of undergraduate students looking for a field to major in and inspires graduate students on possible research directions. It is also meant to show to specialists in adjacent fields how a particular strand of theoretical linguistics relates to their concerns, and in so doing, the book intends to foster collaboration across disciplines.
The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1
In the past fifty years, scholars of human development have been moving from studying change in humans within sharply defined periods, to seeing many more of these phenomenon as more profitably studied over time and in relation to other processes. The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1: Cognition, Biology, and Methods presents the study of human development conducted by the best scholars in the 21st century. Social workers, counselors and public health workers will receive coverage of of the biological and cognitive aspects of human change across the lifespan.
Psicología Médica
Texto riguroso en el que se recogen de manera siste mática los últimos avances científicos en el estudio del comportamiento humano relacio nado con la salud. La obra se divide en cinco grandes bloques temáticos, en los que se abordan desde los procesos psicológicos básicos, la personalidad y el desarrollo en un entorno social, la comunicación asistencial y la interacció méico-paciente, hasta contenidos introductorios a la psicopatologí y la psicoterapia. Buscando un enfoque multidisciplinar, en la elaboración de esta segunda edición han participado 54 profesores e investigadores nacionales e internacionales de los hábitos de la medicina, la psicologí, la enfermerí o la biologí, todos ellos expertos en sus campos de conocimiento. A pesar de su rigor, se ha empleado un lenguaje didático. Incluye, en esta nueva edición, capítulos específicos que desarrollan los factores psicológicos clave para la adquisición de habilidades de comunicación asistencial con el objetivo de enseñar como establecer una buena interacción médico-paciente. Único texto actualizado disponible en español en un campo científico en continua
