Looking down on human intelligence : from psychometrics to the brain /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Deary, Ian J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Series:Oxford psychology series ; no. 34.
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Table of Contents:
  • Little g and friends An exposition of psychometric intelligence differences. The anatomy (or geography) of that which has to be explained
  • Four intelligent reductionists Looking down on human intelligence from Socrates to Spearman
  • The discriminating mind Intelligence and sensory discrimination in the early twentieth century, and the more recent rise of joint experimental-differential approaches to human mental ability differences
  • Vade-mecum Desperately seeking a mental cytology
  • Cake-slicing Cognitive reductionism with self-sufficiency
  • Faster, smarter? Reaction times: raking around in cognitive psychology
  • Quick on the uptake Inspection times: raking around in psychophysics
  • Wisdom from the ages Slowing of speed of information processing is cognitive ageing!?
  • Wetware (with Peter G. Caryl and Alasdair J. MacLullich) Reaching for the brain: raking around in biological sciences
  • Den finger in die wunde legen Avoiding " cargo cult science " and " the glass bead game "
  • Index.