On Intelligence

by Ceci, Stephen J.

• ISBN13: 9780674634565
• ISBN10: 067463456X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-01
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

Ceci argues that traditional conceptions of intelligence ignore the role of society in shaping intelligence and underestimate the intelligence of non-Western societies. He puts forth a "bio-ecological" framework of individual differences in intellectual development that is intended to address some of the major deficiencies of extant theories of intelligence. The focus is on alternative interpretations of phenomena that emerge when implicit assumptions of intelligence researchers are challenged.

Table of Contents

Preface, 1996 Preface to the Original Edition

Acknowledgments

Social Context and Intellectual Development

Why a Treatise on Intelligence?

Five Easy Facts Old Wine in New Bottles?

Traditional Psychological Theories of Intelligence

About the Rest of This Book

Toward an Inductive

Theory of Intellectual Complexity Toward a Developmental

Framework Terminological Considerations

Elaborated Knowledge Structures Versus Cognitive Processes Knowledge Versus Intelligence

Mismatches Between Intelligent Peformance and IQ Cultural

Anthropology Grocery Shopping Dairy Workers !Kung San Hunters

Experimental Psychology Cupcake Baking Capturing Butterflies City Manager

A Day at the Races

A Social-Organizational

Analysis of Intellectual Development Social Class and IQ Motivational Values

Inculcated Through Parenting SAT Scores and Academic

Achievement Income and SATs

One Interpretation Income and SATs

An Alternate Interpretation

The Terman Study of Genius

The Validity of IQ Convergence from Recent

Life Course Analyses Thirtysomething

To Be Born Rich or Smart

The Impact of Schooling on Intelligence

Correlation Between IQ and Years in School Influence of Summer Vacation on IQ Continuous

Impact of Schooling on IQ Impact of Delayed Schooling on IQ

School Achievement versus

Aptitude Influence of Early Termination of Schooling on IQ

Influence of Northern Schooling on Black IQ

Influence of Early School Entry on Cognitive Development

Influence of Intergenerational Changes in Schooling Quality of Schooling

Schooling and Information Processing Perceptual

Abilities Concept Formation Memory Other Cognitive Skills Taking Stock

The Bioecological Framework

The Role of Context in Shaping Multiple Intelligences Contextualism and Intelligence

Cognitive Molecules Out of Context Culture's Role

A Bioecological Theoretical Framework Introducing the Bioecological

View Multiple Cognitive Potentials Pitting g Against a Multiple Potential Perspective Central Processing Capacity

The Problem with Factors Contexts of Crystallization

Motives as Crystallizing

Agents Environmental Challenges Knowledge versus

Intelligence Some Illustrative Anecdotes Knowledge and Process in Symbiosis

A Model of Cognitive Complexity Evaluating the Bioecological Framework vis--a--vis Classic Forms of Evidence

The Case of Heritability Genetics Methods of Estimating h2

The Stability, Nature, and Meaning of h2

The Assumption of Additivity Differences Between Correlations and Means Confounding Genetic and Ecological Sources of Shared Variance

The Fallacy: Biology = IQ = Intelligence = Singularity of Mind= Real--World Success Cross--Task Commonality

The Role of Task Complexity g and job Success Positive Manifold Same--Different Judgments

The Role of Practice Age of Aquisition and Memory

How Abstract Is Intelligence?

The Relationship Between Intelligence and Abstraction Transfer Within and Across Domains Abstractness Defined

The Role of Knowledge in Abstraction Race and Abstraction

The Jensen Study Generality

The Effect of Training on Transfer

Transfer and Cross-Task Correlations

The Problem of Problem Isomorphs

Taking Stock of the Options Contrasting the Bioecological

Framework with Existing Theories Contextualist Theories

Information Processing Theory

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