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10 - Intelligence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2019

By
Robert J. Sternberg
Edited by
Robert J. Sternberg  and
Wade E. Pickren
Robert J. Sternberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Wade E. Pickren
Affiliation:
Ithaca College, New York
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Summary

This chapter reviews the intellectual history of the study of intelligence. It provides an overview of the field today. Then it reviews the early history of the field, dating back to Sir Francis Galton and then Albert Binet, Charles Spearman, and their successors. It discusses the theory of general intelligence and competitors to the theory such as the structure-of-intellect model proposed by J. P. Guilford. The chapter also describes in some detail various approaches to testing intelligence. It further describes the work of Jean Piaget, as well as biological and cultural views on intelligence. It then describes the theory of multiple intelligences and the theory of successful intelligence. It further describes the Flynn effect. Then it draws conclusions.

Keywords

intelligencefluid intelligencecrystallized intelligenceFlynn effecttheory of multiple intelligencestheory of successful intelligence
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The Cambridge Handbook of the Intellectual History of Psychology , pp. 267 - 286
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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