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Author Ceci, Stephen J.

Title On intelligence : a bioecological treatise on intellectual development / Stephen J. Ceci.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.

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Edition Expanded ed.
Description 1 online resource (xxii, 288 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note "First Harvard University Press paperback edition"--Title page verso.
Expanded ed. of: On intelligence-- more or less. c1990.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) and index.
Contents ""Contents""; ""Preface, 1996""; ""Preface to the Original Edition""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""PART ONE SOCIAL CONTEXT AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT""; ""CHAPTER 1 Why a Treatise on Intelligence?""; ""Five Easy Facts""; ""Old Wine in New Bottles?""; ""Traditional Psychological Theories of Intelligence""; ""About the Rest of This Book""; ""CHAPTER 2 Toward an Inductive Theory of Intellectual Complexity""; ""Toward a Developmental Framework""; ""Terminological Considerations""; ""Elaborated Knowledge Structures versus Cognitive Processes""; ""Knowledge versus Intelligence""
""CHAPTER 3 Mismatches Between Intelligent Performance and IQ""""Cultural Anthropology""; ""Grocery Shopping""; ""Dairy Workers""; ""!Kung San Hunters""; ""Experimental Psychology""; ""Cupcake Baking""; ""Capturing Butterflies""; ""City Manager""; ""A Day at the Races""; ""CHAPTER 4 A Social-Organizational Analysis of Intellectual Development""; ""Social Class and IQ""; ""Motivational Values Inculcated Through Parenting""; ""SAT Scores and Academic Achievement""; ""Income and SATs: One Interpretation""; ""Income and SATs: An Alternate Interpretation""; ""The Terman Study of Genius""
""The Validity of IQ""""Convergence from Recent Life Course Analyses""; ""Thirtysomething: To Be Born Rich or Smart""; ""CHAPTER 5 The Impact of Schooling on Intelligence""; ""Correlation Between IQ and Years in School""; ""Influence of Summer Vacation on IQ""; ""Continuous Impact of Schooling on IQ""; ""Impact of Delayed Schooling on IQ""; ""School Achievement versus Aptitude""; ""Influence of Early Termination of Schooling on IQ""; ""Influence of Northern Schooling on Black IQ""; ""Influence of Early School Entry on Cognitive Development""
""Influence of Intergenerational Changes in Schooling""""Quality of Schooling""; ""Schooling and Information Processing""; ""Perceptual Abilities""; ""Concept Formation""; ""Memory""; ""Other Cognitive Skills""; ""Taking Stock""; ""PART TWO THE BIOECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK""; ""CHAPTER 6 The Role of Context in Shaping Multiple Intelligences""; ""Contextualism and Intelligence""; ""Cognitive Molecules Out of Context""; ""Culture's Role""; ""A Bioecological Theoretical Framework""; ""Introducing the Bioecological View""; ""Multiple Cognitive Potentials""
""Pitting g Against a Multiple Potential Perspective""""Central Processing Capacity""; ""The Problem with Factors""; ""Contexts of Crystallization""; ""Motives as Crystallizing Agents""; ""Environmental Challenges""; ""Knowledge versus Intelligence""; ""Some Illustrative Anecdotes""; ""Knowledge and Process in Symbiosis""; ""CHAPTER 7 A Model of Cognitive Complexity""; ""Evaluating the Bioecological Framework vis-a-vis Classic Forms of Evidence: The Case of Heritability""; ""Genetics""; ""Methods of Estimating h2""; ""The Stability, Nature, and Meaning of h2""
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Subject Herrnstein, Richard J. Bell curve.
Herrnstein, Richard J.
Intellect.
Intellect.
Intelligence levels.
Intelligence levels.
Nature and nurture.
Nature and nurture.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Ceci, Stephen J. On intelligence-- more or less.
Other Form: Print version: Ceci, Stephen J. On intelligence. Expanded ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996 9780674634565 (DLC) 96023821 (OCoLC)34943218
ISBN 9780674029316 (electronic book)
0674029313 (electronic book)
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067463456X
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