Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Pinning Down Potential -- 2. Pretend Genes -- 3. Pretend Intelligence -- 4. Real Genes, Real Intelligence -- 5. Intelligent Development -- 6. How the Brain Makes Potential -- 7. A Creative Cognition -- 8. Potential Between Brains: Soci…
"In Genes, Brains, and Human Potential, Ken Richardson illustrates how the ideology of human intelligence has infiltrated genetics, the brain sciences, and psychology, flourishing in the vagueness of basic concepts, a shallow nature-versus-nurture debate, and the overhyped claim…
In a series of provocative conversations with Skeptic magazine Ssenior editor Frank Miele, renowned University of California-Berkeley psychologist Arthur R. Jensen details the evolution of his thoughts on the nature of intelligence, tracing an intellectual odyssey that leads fro…
This book offers the reader a fresh opportunity to re-learn and re-consider the implications of intelligence testing. The authors discuss the strengths and limitations of IQ testing relative to the factors which may contribute to biased results. They review the history of the ad…
