- Preface, 1996
- Preface to the Original Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1: Social Context and Intellectual Development
- 1. Why a Treatise on Intelligence?
- Five Easy Facts
- Old Wine in New Bottles?
- Traditional Psychological Theories of Intelligence
- About the Rest of This Book
- 2. Toward an Inductive Theory of Intellectual Complexity
- Toward a Developmental Framework
- Terminological Considerations
- Elaborated Knowledge Structures Versus Cognitive Processes
- Knowledge Versus Intelligence
- 3. Mismatches Between Intelligent Peformance and IQ
- Cultural Anthropology
- Grocery Shopping
- Dairy Workers
- !Kung San Hunters
- Experimental Psychology
- Cupcake Baking
- Capturing Butterflies
- City Manager
- Cultural Anthropology
- 4. 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
- 5. 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
- Correlation Between IQ and Years in School
- 1. Why a Treatise on Intelligence?
- Part 2: The Bioecological Framework
- 6. 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
- Contextualism and Intelligence
- 7. A Model of Cognitive Complexity
- Evaluating the Bioecological Framework vis-à-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
- Evaluating the Bioecological Framework vis-à-vis Classic Forms of Evidence: The Case of Heritability
- 8. 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
- Cross-Task Commonality
- 9. 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
- The Relationship Between Intelligence and Abstraction
- 10. Taking Stock of the Options
- Contrasting the Bioecological Framework with Existing Theories
- Contextualist Theories
- Information Processing Theory
- Structural Theories: Piaget’s Theory and Case’s Theory
- Case’s Theory of Intellectual Development
- Knowledge-based Theories of Intellectual Development
- Theories of Multiple Intelligences
- Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory
- Modularity Theories
- Caveat Lector
- Contrasting the Bioecological Framework with Existing Theories
- 6. The Role of Context in Shaping Multiple Intelligences
- Epilogue
- Endnotes
- References
- Subject Index

On Intelligence
A Biological Treatise on Intellectual Development, Expanded Edition
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Publication Date: 09/01/1996