On Intelligence

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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Epilogue
Endnotes
References
Subject Index

A Biological Treatise on Intellectual Development, Expanded Edition

Stephen J. Ceci

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