A Model for Intelligence

Herausgegeben von Eysenck, H.J.

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Produktbeschreibung

H. J. Eysenck The concept of 'intelligence' has been with isfactory state of the concept of intelligence. Cronbach (1957), in his well-known presi us for a long time. Some two thousand years ago, Plato and Aristotle singled out cogni dential address to the American Psychologi tive from orectic factors in behaviour, and cal Association, referred to the two discip lines of scientific psychology, meaning the Cicero coined the term 'intelligentia', which has since assumed such universal accep experimental and the correlational. He ad tance. It is only in recent years, of course, vocated their unification; only by joining that psychologists have attempted to define together in the attempt to build a truly sci the concept more closely, to carry out exper entific psychology could such an objective iments, and to try and measure it. The result be achieved. has been rather curious. On the one hand My own view has always been the same we have the overwhelmingly successful ap (Eysenck 1967 a), and in the companion vol plication of measures of IQ in education, ume to the present one, I have tried to show industrial selection, vocational guidance, of how such a unification can be brought ficer selection, and many other areas. On about in the attempt to construct A Model the other we have large-scale criticism of for Personality (Eysenck 1981 a).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-642-68666-5
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9783642686665
• ISBN-10: 3642686664
• Artikelnr.: 36115287

Autorenporträt

Hans J. Eysenck, geb. in Berlin, ist wohl der am meisten bekannte Psychologe des 20. Jahrhunderts mit rund 90 Büchern und fast 1000 Fachartikeln. Weltbekannt (und bis heute grundlegend) wurden seine Studien zur Persönlichkeitsforschung, die häufig zu Test- und Fragebogenverfahren eingesetzt werden. Der Autor war Direktor des Psychiatrischen Instituts der University of London. Er verstarb 1997.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction.- 1 Introduction.- A Splitting the Atom - The Break-up of the IQ.- 2 The "Scientific Approach" to Intelligence: An Overview of Its History with Special Reference to Mental Speed.- 3 Some Major Components in General Intelligence.- B Reaction and Inspection Time Measures of Intelligence.- 4 Reaction Time and Psychometric g.- 5 Intelligence and "Inspection Time".- C The Psychophysiology of Intelligence.- 6 The Biological Basis of Intelligence Part I: Theory.- 7 The Biological Basis of Intelligence Part II: Measurement.- D Cognitive Principles and Intelligence.- 8 A Componential Interpretation of the General Factor in Human Intelligence.- 9 Is Intelligence? An Epilogue.- Author Index.