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Sunseri, Anita B. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
To determine whether the idea is empirically supported that the majority of left-handers were intellectually inferior to right-handers, current research was examined. Inquiry indicated that the cognitive performance of left-handers was not significantly lower. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Intelligence Differences, Lateral Dominance, Left Handed Writer
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Bateson, David John – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1995
The entire thesis of "The Bell Curve" disintegrates due to biased use of data, misrepresentations, and logical inconsistencies. Five basic flaws are: inferring causality from correlation, use of dubious racial categories, contradictory arguments concerning the immutability of cognitive ability and the relative contributions of heredity…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Data Interpretation, Inferences, Intelligence Differences
Jensen, Arthur R. – Diagnostique, 1991
This paper summarizes empirical findings of research on a theory of general mental ability, based on laboratory studies of the relationship between measurements of individual differences on conventional psychometric tests and in speed and efficiency of information processes. The paper covers characteristics of "g" (general mental ability),…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences
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Sternberg, Robert J. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2000
This article discusses how giftedness is currently defined and presents an alternative view based on a balance theory of wisdom. The theory is described as a useful way of conceptualizing wisdom. Sources of differences in wisdom and the need for development of wisdom as a form of giftedness are addressed. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adults, Classification, Cognitive Ability
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Lynn, Richard; Longley, David – Intelligence, 2006
A number of studies in the United States have found that Jews obtain higher average IQs than white gentiles. This paper examines whether this is also the case in Britain. Three early studies are summarized that found that Jews in Britain have mean IQs in the range of 110-113. New data are presented for two nationally representative samples of 7-16…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Jews, Intelligence Quotient, Sampling
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Wahlsten, Douglas – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1995
Criticizes claims in "The Bell Curve" that a high value for heritability of intelligence constrains the extent to which environmental changes can increase intelligence. Cites adoption studies and the increasing intelligence of successive cohorts of U.S. children as evidence that intelligence can increase substantially without heroic…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Cognitive Ability, Family Environment, Heredity
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Keil, Frank C. – Intelligence, 1982
An approach to intelligence which emphasizes domain-specific constraints on knowledge structures is compared to information processing approaches. The evaluation of any cognitive ability as being intelligent crucially depends on prior specification of the formal constraints on the domains of knowledge from which that ability originates. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
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Schliefer, Michael – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1995
Claims in "The Bell Curve" that Head Start and other early intervention programs are a failure and a waste of funds depend on a notion of cognitive ability reduced to IQ. They ignore other studies that demonstrate the success of such programs and that, consistent with Piagetian views, recognize the interrelationships of cognitive,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Early Intervention
Kingma, Johannes, Ed.; Tomic, Welko, Ed. – 1997
This book contains papers that discuss the "g factor" (general intellectual capacity) in discerning intelligence and how to influence the development of intelligence. The g factor relates to the theory that individuals who do well on one mental ability test tend to do well on other mental ability tests due to an innate ability. Chapters…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Blacks, Cognitive Ability, Environmental Influences
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Belke, Terry W. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1995
Neutral summary of "The Bell Curve" (Herrnstein and Murray) by a former student of Herrnstein. Focuses on the emergence of a cognitive elite in the United States; relationships between IQ and poverty, educational attainment, unemployment, divorce, illegitimacy, welfare dependency, parenting competence, criminal behaviors, and voting;…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Elementary Secondary Education, Heredity, Higher Education
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Sternberg, Robert J.; Grigorenko, Elena L.; Bundy, Donald A. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2001
Reviews findings on the predictive validity of psychometric tests of intelligence. Concludes that conventional tests of intelligence can be useful but only if they are interpreted very carefully, taking into account the factors that can affect them, and in conjunction with other measures. (Author)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Children, Cognitive Ability, Early Childhood Education
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Glaser, Robert; Pellegrino, James W. – Intelligence, 1979
Current studies of cognition emphasize the contrast between two approaches to analysis of individual differences. It is concluded that the cognitive components approach incorporates the cognitive correlates approach, avoids the inadequacy of correlational methods, and models individual differences on various dimensions of cognitive functioning.…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Abstract Reasoning, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Ability