Looking Down on Human Intelligence: From Psychometrics to the Brain: 36 (Oxford Psychology Series) - Hardcover

Deary, Ian J.; Deary, I. J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019852417X ISBN 13: 9780198524175

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2000

Synopsis

Why are some people more mentally able than others - In an authoritative, critical and integrated series of review essays Professor Ian Deary inquires after the cognitive and biological foundations of human mental ability differences. Many accounts of intelligence have examined the structure and number of human mental ability differences and whether they can predict success in education, work and social life. Few books have taken psychometric intelligence differences as a starting point and brought together the reductionistic attempts to explain them. New to the highly acclaimed Oxford Psychology Series, Looking Down on Human Intelligence appraises the search for the origins of psychometric intelligence differences in terms of brain function parameters. The book provides an original and thought provoking guide to ancient and modern research on one of the most compelling questions in human psychology.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 019852417X
• ISBN 13: 9780198524175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 392