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Psychology, 5/e
Lester M. Sdorow, Arcadia University
Cheryl A. Rickabaugh, University of Redlands

Intelligence

For More Information On Intelligence

For General Works on Intelligence

        Irvine, S. H., and Berry, J. W. (Eds.). (1988). Human abilities in cultural context. New York: Cambridge University Press.

        Scarr, S. (1984). Intelligence: What an introductory psychology student might want to know. In A. M. Rogers and C. J. Scheirer (Eds.), The G. Stanley Hall Lecture Series (Vol. 4, pp. 59-99). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

For More on Intelligence Testing

        Chapman, P. D. (1988). Schools as sorters: Lewis M. Terman, applied psychology, and the intelligence testing movement, 1890-1930. New York: New York University Press.

        Cohen, R. J., and Swerdlik, M. E. (1999). Psychology testing and assessment: An introduction to tests and measurement. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield.

        Frank, G. (1983). The Wechsler enterprise: An assessment of the development, structure and use of the Wechsler tests of intelligence. New York: Pergamon.

        Thorndike, R. M., and Lohman, D. F. (1990). A century of ability testing. Chicago: Riverside.

        Zenderland, L. (1997). Measuring minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the origins of American intelligence testing. New York: Cambridge University Press.

For More on Mental Retardation

        Beirne-Smith, M., Patton, J. R., and Ittenbach, R. (1994). Mental retardation. New York: Macmillan.

        Dolce, L. (1994). Mental retardation. New York: Chelsea House.

        Treffert, D. A. (1989). Extraordinary people: Understanding "idiot savants." New York: Harper and Row.

        Trent, J. W. (1994). Inventing the feebleminded: A history of mental retardation in the United States, 1840-1990. Berkeley: University of California Press.

For More on Mental Giftedness

        Horowitz, F. D., and O'Brien, M. (Eds.). (1985). The gifted and talented: Developmental perspectives. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

        Murray, P. (Ed.). (1989). Genius: The history of an idea. New York: Basil Blackwell.

        Shurkin, J. N. (1992). Terman's kids: The groundbreaking study of how the gifted grow up. Boston: Little, Brown.

        Wallace, A. (1986).The prodigy. New York: Dutton.

For More on Theories of Intelligence

        Gardner, H. (1993).Multiple intelligences: The theory in practice. New York: Basic Books.

        Spearman, C. (1923/1973). The nature of "intelligence" and the principles of cognition. New York: Arno.

        Sternberg, R. J. (1984). Beyond IQ: A triarchic theory of intelligence. New York: Cambridge University Press.

        Thurstone, L. L. (1924/1973). The nature of intelligence. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

FOR MORE ON Heredity and environment

        Galton, F. (1869/1972). Hereditary genius: An inquiry into its laws and consequences. Magnolia, MA: Peter Smith.

        Gould, S. J. (1981). The mismeasure of man. New York: W. W. Norton.

        Joynson, R. B. (1989). The Burt affair. New York: Routledge.

        Sternberg, R. J., and Grigorenko, E. (Eds.). (1997). Intelligence, heredity, and environment. New York: Cambridge University Press.

        Zigler, E., and Valentine, J. (Eds.). (1979). Project Head Start: A legacy of the war on poverty. New York: Free Press.

For More on Contributors to the Study of Intelligence

        Anastasi, A. (1980). Anne Anastasi. In G. Lindzey (Ed.), A history of psychology in autobiography (Vol. 7, pp. 1-37). San Francisco: Freeman.

        Fancher, R. E. (1985). The intelligence men: Makers of the IQ controversy. New York: W. W. Norton.

        Forrest, D. W. (1974). Francis Galton: The life and work of a Victorian genius. New York: Taplinger.

        Hearnshaw, L. S. (1979). Cyril Burt: Psychologist. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

        Hollingworth, H. L. (1943/1990). Leta Stetter Hollingworth. Bolton, MA: Anker.

        Minton, H. L. (1988). Lewis M. Terman: Pioneer in psychological testing. New York: New York University Press.

        Wolf, T. H. (1973). Alfred Binet. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

        Woody, D. A. (1962). Louis Leon Thurstone. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service.