Book contents
- Understanding Intelligence
- Series page
- Understanding Intelligence
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Testing, Testing
- 2 In the Genes?
- 3 Intelligent Systems
- 4 Intelligence Evolving
- 5 Intelligent Development
- 6 Intelligent Machine?
- 7 Becoming Human
- 8 Individual Differences
- 9 Promoting Intelligence
- Summary of the Book
- Summary of Common Misunderstandings
- References
- Index
1 - Testing, Testing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2022
- Understanding Intelligence
- Series page
- Understanding Intelligence
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Testing, Testing
- 2 In the Genes?
- 3 Intelligent Systems
- 4 Intelligence Evolving
- 5 Intelligent Development
- 6 Intelligent Machine?
- 7 Becoming Human
- 8 Individual Differences
- 9 Promoting Intelligence
- Summary of the Book
- Summary of Common Misunderstandings
- References
- Index
Summary
When people consider intelligence, they will first tend to think of IQ, and scores that distinguish people, one from another. They will also tend to think of those scores as describing something as much part of individuals’ make-up as faces and fingerprints. Today, a psychologist who uses IQ tests and attempts to prove score differences are caused by genetic differences will be described as an ‘expert’ on intelligence. That indicates how influential IQ testing has become, and how much it has become part of society’s general conceptual furniture.
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- Understanding Intelligence , pp. 1 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022