| Description |
x, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction The nature and scope of practical intelligence / Robert J. Sternberg -- pt. 1. Intelligence on the job Thinking in action: some characteristics of practical thought / Sylvia Scribner -- What characterizes intelligent functioning among senior managers? / George O. Klemp, Jr. and David C. McClelland -- Tacit knowledge and intelligence in the everyday world / Richard K. Wagner and Robert J. Sternberg -- Toward a broader conception of human intelligence / Norman Frederiksen -- pt. 2. Intelligence in daily life Academic and nonacademic intelligence: an experimental separation / Stephen J. Ceci and Jeffrey Liker -- Some lifelong everyday forms of intelligent behavior: organizing and reorganizing / Jacqueline J. Goodnow -- The theory of multiple intelligences: some issues and answers / Joseph M. Walters and Howard Gardner -- For all practical purposes: criteria for defining and evaluating practical intelligence / Martin E. Ford -- pt. 3. The development of practical intelligence Toward life-span research on the functions and pragmatics of intelligence / Roger A. Dixon and Paul B. Baltes -- Practical intelligence in later adulthood / Sherry L. Willis and K. Warner Schaie -- pt. 4. Cross-cultural approaches to practical intelligence Bricolage: savages do it daily / J.W. Berry and S.H. Irvine -- The development of practical intelligence in cross-cultural perspective / Jane R. Mercer, Margarita Gomez-Palacio and Eligio Padilla -- Intelligence and literacy: the relationships between intelligence and the technologies of representation and communication / David R. Olson -- The search for intraterrestrial intelligence / Richard K. Wagner |
| Analysis |
Man Intelligence |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographies and indexes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and indexes |
| Subject |
Intellect.
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Intelligence.
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| Author |
Sternberg, Robert J.
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Wagner, Richard K.
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| LC no. |
85028942 |
| ISBN |
0521302536 |
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0521317975 (paperback) |
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