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Synopsis
Few scientific debates have been more protracted and intense than whether we are born with our cognitive ability, whether our environment moulds it or whether these two things interact to produce it. The Origins of Human Potential offers a new insight into the arguments by showing that many of the assumptions on both sides, are false.
Ken Richardson re-examines evidence about the nature of genes in development, the environment and the development of cognitive ability and the nature of cognitive ability itself. Can it really be measured in an IQ test, like height or weight?
Ken Richardson's human-centred view describes the evolutionary context of our dynamic, changeable environments and the creative individual at the heart of the debate. It will be of great relevance to psychologists and education policy makers and should be read by all those with an interest in our children's future.
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Few scientific debates have been more protracted and intense than whether we are born with our cognitive ability, whether our environment moulds it or whether these two things interact to produce it. This book offers a fresh insight into the arguments by arguing that many of the assumptions on both sides, are false. The author examines evidence about the nature of genes and their involvement in development, the nature of evolution and its effect on cognitive ability, the nature of the environment in the development of cognitive ability, and the nature of cognitive ability itself. Can it really be measured in an IQ test, like height or weight? This book attempts to give the answers.
About the Author
Ken Richardson is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Human Development and Learning at the Open University.
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0415173701
- ISBN 13 9780415173704
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages232
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