The Nature of Intelligence and Its Development in Childhood (Elements in Child Development) - Softcover

Book 4 of 14: Elements in Child Development

Sternberg, Robert J.

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9781108791533: The Nature of Intelligence and Its Development in Childhood (Elements in Child Development)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1108791530 ISBN 13: 9781108791533
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

In this Element, I first introduce intelligence in terms of historical definitions. I show that intelligence, as conceived even by the originators of the first intelligence tests, Alfred Binet and David Wechsler, is a much broader construct than just scores on narrow tests of intelligence and their proxies. I then review the major approaches to understanding intelligence and its development: the psychometric (test-based), cognitive and neurocognitive (intelligence as a set of brain-based cognitive representations and processes), systems, cultural, and developmental. These approaches, taken together, present a much more complex portrait of intelligence and its development than the one that would be ascertained just from scores on intelligence tests. Finally, I draw some take-away conclusions.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1108791530
ISBN 13 
9781108791533
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
80
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