What Is Intelligence? Beyond the Flynn Effect

Name: What Is Intelligence? Beyond the Flynn Effect
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ISBN: 9780521741477

ISBN-10: 0521741475

ISBN-13: 9780521741477

Edition: 2009

Authors: James R. Flynn

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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 and gives a surprising and illuminating answer.…

Book details

List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/23/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 274
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of figures page


List of tables


List of boxes


Preface to the expanded paperback edition


Acknowledgments



A bombshell in a letter box



Beyond the Flynn effect



Towards a new theory of intelligence



Testing the Dickens/Flynn model



Why did it take so long?



IQ gains can kill



What if the gains are over?



Knowing our ancestors



The art of writing cognitive history



About GUT: the grand unification theory of intelligence



Howard Gardner and the use of words



Tables



Declaration in a capital case


References


Subject index


Name index