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Santrock Life-Span Development: A Topical Approach
Life-Span Development: A Topical Approach
John W. Santrock
Cognitive Processes and Development
Intelligence

Chapter Oultine

  1. WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE?
  2. INTELLIGENCE TESTS
    1. The Binet Tests and the Wechsler Scales
      1. The Binet Tests
      2. The Wechsler Scales
    2. Group Tests
  3. SINGLE OR MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES?
    1. Early Views
    2. Contemporary Approaches
      1. Gardner's Eight Frames of Mind
      2. Sternberg's Triarchic Theory
      3. Evaluating the Multiple-Intelligence Approaches
  4. THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLIGENCE
    1. Infant Intelligence
    2. Stability and Change in Intelligence Through Adolescence
    3. The Use of Information-Processing Tasks in Infancy to Predict Intelligence
    4. Intelligence in Adulthood and the Effects of Aging
      1. Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence
      2. The Seattle Longitudinal Study
      3. Wisdom
  5. CONTROVERSIES AND ISSUES IN INTELLIGENCE
    1. The Heredity-Environment Controversy
    2. Culture and Ethnicity
      1. Cultural and Ethnic Comparisons
      2. Cultural Bias and Culture-Fair Tests
    3. The Use and Misuse of Intelligence Tests
  6. THE EXTREMES OF INTELLIGENCE AND CREATIVITY
    1. Mental Retardation
    2. Giftedness
      1. What Is Giftedness?
      2. Characteristics of Gifted Children
    3. Creativity
      1. What Is Creativity?
      2. Characteristics of Creative Thinkers
      3. Adult Developmental Changes
      4. Living a More Creative Life








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