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1 online resource (xxii, 288 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Contents -- Preface, 1996 -- Preface to the Original Edition -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE SOCIAL CONTEXT AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT -- CHAPTER 1 Why a Treatise on Intelligence? -- Five Easy Facts -- Old Wine in New Bottles? -- Traditional Psychological Theories of Intelligence -- About the Rest of This Book -- CHAPTER 2 Toward an Inductive Theory of Intellectual Complexity -- Toward a Developmental Framework -- Terminological Considerations -- Elaborated Knowledge Structures versus Cognitive Processes -- Knowledge versus Intelligence |
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CHAPTER 3 Mismatches Between Intelligent Performance and IQCultural Anthropology -- Grocery Shopping -- Dairy Workers --!Kung San Hunters -- Experimental Psychology -- Cupcake Baking -- Capturing Butterflies -- City Manager -- A Day at the Races -- CHAPTER 4 A Social-Organizational Analysis of Intellectual Development -- Social Class and IQ -- Motivational Values Inculcated Through Parenting -- SAT Scores and Academic Achievement -- Income and SATs: One Interpretation -- Income and SATs: An Alternate Interpretation -- The Terman Study of Genius |
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The Validity of IQConvergence from Recent Life Course Analyses -- Thirtysomething: To Be Born Rich or Smart -- CHAPTER 5 The Impact of Schooling on Intelligence -- Correlation Between IQ and Years in School -- Influence of Summer Vacation on IQ -- Continuous Impact of Schooling on IQ -- Impact of Delayed Schooling on IQ -- School Achievement versus Aptitude -- Influence of Early Termination of Schooling on IQ -- Influence of Northern Schooling on Black IQ -- Influence of Early School Entry on Cognitive Development |
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Influence of Intergenerational Changes in SchoolingQuality of Schooling -- Schooling and Information Processing -- Perceptual Abilities -- Concept Formation -- Memory -- Other Cognitive Skills -- Taking Stock -- PART TWO THE BIOECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK -- CHAPTER 6 The Role of Context in Shaping Multiple Intelligences -- Contextualism and Intelligence -- Cognitive Molecules Out of Context -- Culture's Role -- A Bioecological Theoretical Framework -- Introducing the Bioecological View -- Multiple Cognitive Potentials |
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Pitting g Against a Multiple Potential PerspectiveCentral Processing Capacity -- The Problem with Factors -- Contexts of Crystallization -- Motives as Crystallizing Agents -- Environmental Challenges -- Knowledge versus Intelligence -- Some Illustrative Anecdotes -- Knowledge and Process in Symbiosis -- CHAPTER 7 A Model of Cognitive Complexity -- Evaluating the Bioecological Framework vis-a-vis Classic Forms of Evidence: The Case of Heritability -- Genetics -- Methods of Estimating h2 -- The Stability, Nature, and Meaning of h2 |
| Summary |
Ceci argues that traditional conceptions of intelligence ignore the role of society in shaping intelligence and underestimate the intelligence of non-Western societies. He puts forth a "bio-ecological" framework of individual differences in intellectual development that is intended to address some of the major deficiencies of extant theories of intelligence. The focus is on alternative interpretations of phenomena that emerge when implicit assumptions of intelligence researchers are challenged |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Herrnstein, Richard J. Bell curve.
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Herrnstein, Richard J. Bell curve. |
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Bell curve (Herrnstein, Richard J.) fast |
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Intellect.
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Intelligence levels.
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Nature and nurture.
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Intelligence
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
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Intellect
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Intelligence levels
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Nature and nurture
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Intelligentie.
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Intellectuele vorming.
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Intelligence.
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Niveau intellectuel.
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Hérédité et milieu.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Ceci, Stephen J.
On intelligence-- more or less
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| ISBN |
9780674029316 |
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0674029313 |
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9780674634565 |
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067463456X |
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