Sam Goldstein,Dana Princiotta,Jack A. Naglieri's Handbook of Intelligence: Evolutionary Theory, Historical PDF

By Sam Goldstein,Dana Princiotta,Jack A. Naglieri

ISBN-10: 1493915614

ISBN-13: 9781493915613

Numerous services, cognitive talents, and behaviors are linked to intelligence, but many years of study has yielded little consensus on its definition. rising from usually conflicting experiences is the provocative concept that intelligence developed as an model people had to stay alongside of – and live on in – not easy new environments.

The Handbook of Intelligence addresses a wide diversity of matters on the subject of our cognitive and linguistic previous. it's the first full-length quantity to put intelligence in an evolutionary/cultural framework, tracing the advance of the human brain, exploring transformations among people and different primates, and addressing human considering and reasoning approximately its personal intelligence and its makes use of. The works of pioneering thinkers – from Plato to Darwin, Binet to Piaget, Luria to Weachsler – are referenced to demonstrate significant occasions within the evolution of theories of intelligence, resulting in the present period of a number of intelligences and certain teaching programs. additionally, it examines evolutionary ideas in parts as various as creativity, tradition, neurocognition, emotional intelligence, and assessment.

Featured subject matters include:

The evolution of the human mind from subject to mind
Social festival and the evolution of fluid intelligence
Multiple intelligences within the new age of thinking
Intelligence as a malleable construct
From conventional IQ to second-generation intelligence tests
The evolution of intelligence, together with implications for tutorial programming and policy.

The Handbook of Intelligence is an important source for researchers, graduate scholars, clinicians, and pros in developmental psychology; overview, checking out and overview; language philosophy; character and social psychology; sociology; and developmental biology.

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