Future bright : a transforming vision of human intelligence /

Ever since Alfred Binet invented the first IQ test more than a century ago, we have thought of intelligence as fixed from birth and unalterable-as genetically programmed and immutable as eye color. If our IQ was 115 at the age of eighteen, it would be 115 at age thirty-two and at age seventy-two. Bu...

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Main Author: Martinez, Michael E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • The sine qua non of success
  • What is intelligence?
  • Varieties of intelligence
  • Brain and mind
  • The nature-nurture dilemma
  • How experience cultivates intelligence
  • The superstructure of effectiveness
  • Ten strategies to enhance intelligence.