Intelligence and Human Progress
The Story of What was Hidden in our Genes
- 1st Edition - June 7, 2013
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: James Flynn
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 1 7 0 1 4 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 1 7 0 1 8 - 6
Written by James R. Flynn of the "Flynn effect" (the sustained and substantial increase in intelligence test scores across the world over many decades), Intelligence and Human… Read more
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Request a sales quoteWritten by James R. Flynn of the "Flynn effect" (the sustained and substantial increase in intelligence test scores across the world over many decades), Intelligence and Human Progress examines genes and human achievement in all aspects, including what genes allow and forbid in terms of personal life history, the cognitive progress of humanity, the moral progress of humanity, and the cross-fertilization of the two.
This book presents a new method for weighing family influences versus genes in the cognitive abilities of individuals, and counters the arguments of those who dismiss gains in IQ as true cognitive gains. It ranges over topics including: how family can handicap those taking the SAT; new IQ thresholds for occupations that show elite occupations are within reach of the average American; what Pol Pot did to the genetic potential of Cambodia; why dysgenics (the deterioration of human genes over the generations) is important, but no menace for the foreseeable future; and what might derail human intellectual progress.
Researchers in developmental and cognitive psychology, educators, and professionals involved in intelligence testing or psychometrics will benefit from the perspectives offered here. But beyond that, anyone interested in the potential of the human mind will be engaged and challenged by one of the most important contemporary thinkers on the subject.
Researchers in developmental and cognitive psychology, educators, and professionals involved in intelligence testing or psychometrics as well as the educated layperson
Chapter 1. Our Genes and Ourselves
- 1.1 Outline of the Chapters
- 1.2 Massive IQ Gains Over Time
- 1.3 The Dickens/Flynn Model
- 1.4 Measuring Something New
- References
Chapter 2. Genes and Cognitive Progress
- 2.1 Jensen’s Method
- 2.2 The Conceptual Foundations of the Method
- 2.3 The Method in Practice
- 2.4 Summary Judgment
- References
Appendix A (Primarily for Specialists)
Chapter 3. Dysgenics and Eugenics
- 3.1 Pol Pot and Cambodia
- 3.2 Reproductive Patterns
- 3.3 Race and Immigration
- 3.4 Summary
- References
Chapter 4. Genes and Moral Progress
- 4.1 Our Genetic Inheritance
- 4.2 The Omnipresent Decline of Violent Behavior
- 4.3 Cognitive Progress and Moral Progress
- 4.4 Progress at Risk
- References
Chapter 5. Genes and Individual Differences
- 5.1 Aging and Family Environment
- 5.2 The New Method
- 5.3 The Method Applied
- 5.4 Decline of Family Environment
- 5.5 Making Your Own Luck
- 5.6 IQ Gains Vindicated
- References
Appendix B (Primarily for Specialists)
Chapter 6. Frozen Minds
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 7, 2013
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 126
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780124170148
- eBook ISBN: 9780124170186
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University of Otago,Dunedin, New ZealandRead Intelligence and Human Progress on ScienceDirect