What Is Intelligence?
Beyond the Flynn Effect
Professor James Flynn is one of the most creative and influential psychologists in the field of intelligence. The 'Flynn Effect' refers to the massive increase in IQ test scores over the course of the twentieth century and the term was coined to recognize Professor Flynn's central role in measuring and analyzing these gains. For over twenty years, psychologists have struggled to understand the implications of IQ gains. Do they mean that each generation is more intelligent than the last? Do they suggest how each of us can enhance our own intelligence? Professor Flynn is finally ready to give his own views. He asks what intelligence really is a…
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- ISBN: 978-0-521-88007-7
- EAN: 9780521880077
- Produktnummer: 2858553
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 274 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D1.9 cm 580 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 580
Über den Autor
James R. Flynn is Professor Emeritus at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and a recipient of the University's Gold Medal for Distinguished Career Research. In 2007, the International Society for Intelligence Research named him its Distinguished Contributor of the Year. He has been Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, Distinguished Visiting Speaker at Cornell, delivered the Stafford Little Lecture at Princeton, and been profiled in Scientific American. Professor Flynn has recently published his current views on race and IQ in Where Have All the Liberals Gone? Race, Class, and Ideals in America (Cambridge, 2008).
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