What Is Intelligence? : Beyond the Flynn Effect

By (author) Flynn, James Robert

The 'Flynn effect' refers to the massive increase in IQ test scores over the course of the twentieth century. Does it mean that each generation is more intelligent than the last? Does it 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. This expanded paperback edition includes three important new essays. The first contrasts the art of writing cognitive history with the science of measuring intelligence and reports data. The second outlines how we might get a complete theory of intelligence, and the third details Flynn's reservations about Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. A fascinating book that bridges the gulf separating our minds from those of our ancestors a century ago, and makes an important contribution to our understanding of human intelligence.

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[目次]

  • Preface to the expanded paperback edition
  • 1. A bombshell in a letter box
  • 2. Beyond the Flynn effect
  • 3. Towards a new theory of intelligence
  • 4. Testing the Dickens/Flynn model
  • 5. Why did it take so long?
  • 6. IQ gains can kill
  • 7. What if the gains are over?
  • 8. Knowing our ancestors
  • 9. The art of writing cognitive history
  • 10. About GUT: the grand unification theory of intelligence
  • 11. Howard Gardner and the use of words
  • Appendix I. Tables
  • Appendix II. Declaration in a capital case.

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書名 What Is Intelligence? : Beyond the Flynn Effect
著作者等 Flynn, James Robert
書名別名 Beyond the Flynn Effect
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 2009.03.23
ページ数 274p
大きさ H228 x W152
ISBN 9780521741477
言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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