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Author |
: Michael E. Staub |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2018-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469643601 |
ISBN-13 |
: 146964360X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mismeasure of Minds by : Michael E. Staub
The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision required desegregation of America's schools, but it also set in motion an agonizing multidecade debate over race, class, and IQ. In this innovative book, Michael E. Staub investigates neuropsychological studies published between Brown and the controversial 1994 book The Bell Curve. In doing so, he illuminates how we came to view race and intelligence today. In tracing how research and experiments around such concepts as learned helplessness, deferred gratification, hyperactivity, and emotional intelligence migrated into popular culture and government policy, Staub reveals long-standing and widespread dissatisfaction—not least among middle-class whites—with the metric of IQ. He also documents the devastating consequences—above all for disadvantaged children of color—as efforts to undo discrimination and create enriched learning environments were recurrently repudiated and defunded. By connecting psychology, race, and public policy in a single narrative, Staub charts the paradoxes that have emerged and that continue to structure investigations of racism even into the era of contemporary neuroscientific research.
Author |
: Stephen Jay Gould |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 458 |
Release |
: 2006-06-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393340402 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393340406 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mismeasure of Man (Revised and Expanded) by : Stephen Jay Gould
The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. And yet the idea of innate limits—of biology as destiny—dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined by Stephen Jay Gould. In this edition Dr. Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve. Further, he has added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the book's claim to be, as Leo J. Kamin of Princeton University has said, "a major contribution toward deflating pseudo-biological 'explanations' of our present social woes."
Author |
: Stephen Jay Gould |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 458 |
Release |
: 1996-02-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0393314251 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780393314250 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mismeasure of Man by : Stephen Jay Gould
Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve, Further, he has added five essays, in a separate section at the end, on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the claim of this book to be, as Leo J.
Author |
: Denny Borsboom |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 195 |
Release |
: 2005-05-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139444637 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139444638 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Measuring the Mind by : Denny Borsboom
Is it possible to measure psychological attributes like intelligence, personality and attitudes and if so, how does that work? What does the term 'measurement' mean in a psychological context? This fascinating and timely book discusses these questions and investigates the possible answers that can be given response. Denny Borsboom provides an in-depth treatment of the philosophical foundations of widely used measurement models in psychology. The theoretical status of classical test theory, latent variable theory and positioned in terms of the underlying philosophy of science. Special attention is devoted to the central concept of test validity and future directions to improve the theory and practice of psychological measurement are outlined.
Author |
: Kurt Danziger |
Publisher |
: SAGE |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 1997-05-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0803977638 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780803977631 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Naming the Mind by : Kurt Danziger
In this work, the author explains how modern psychology found its language by examining the historically changing structure of psychological discourse and offering an analysis of the recent evolution of the concepts and categories on which the quality of psychological discourse depends.
Author |
: Edward Stein |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 406 |
Release |
: 2001-04-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195142440 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195142446 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mismeasure of Desire by : Edward Stein
In recent years, scientific research & popular opinion have favoured the idea that sexual orientations are determined at birth, but Edward Stein argues that this may be wrong. This book offers an examination of contemporary thinking on this issue.
Author |
: Alessandra Tanesini |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198858836 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198858833 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mismeasure of the Self by : Alessandra Tanesini
The Mismeasure of the Self is dedicated to vices that blight many lives. They are the vices of superiority, characteristic of those who feel entitled, superior and who have an inflated opinion of themselves, and those of inferiority, typical of those who are riddled with self-doubt and feel inferior. Arrogance, narcissism, haughtiness, and vanity are among the first group. Self-abasement, fatalism, servility, and timidity exemplify the second. This book shows these traits to be to vices of self-evaluation and describes their pervasive harmful effects in some detail. Even though the influence of these traits extends to any aspect of life, the focus of this book is their damaging impact on the life of the intellect. Tanesini develops and defends a view of these vices that puts vicious motivations at their core. The analyses developed in this work build on empirical research in attitude psychology and on philosophical theories in virtue ethics and epistemology. The book concludes with a positive proposal for weakening vice and promoting virtue.
Author |
: Robert A. Burton, M.D. |
Publisher |
: St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2013-04-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250028402 |
ISBN-13 |
: 125002840X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind by : Robert A. Burton, M.D.
What if our soundest, most reasonable judgments are beyond our control? Despite 2500 years of contemplation by the world's greatest minds and the more recent phenomenal advances in basic neuroscience, neither neuroscientists nor philosophers have a decent understanding of what the mind is or how it works. The gap between what the brain does and the mind experiences remains uncharted territory. Nevertheless, with powerful new tools such as the fMRI scan, neuroscience has become the de facto mode of explanation of behavior. Neuroscientists tell us why we prefer Coke to Pepsi, and the media trumpets headlines such as "Possible site of free will found in brain." Or: "Bad behavior down to genes, not poor parenting." Robert Burton believes that while some neuroscience observations are real advances, others are overreaching, unwarranted, wrong-headed, self-serving, or just plain ridiculous, and often with the potential for catastrophic personal and social consequences. In A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind, he brings together clinical observations, practical thought experiments, personal anecdotes, and cutting-edge neuroscience to decipher what neuroscience can tell us – and where it falls woefully short. At the same time, he offers a new vision of how to think about what the mind might be and how it works. A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind is a critical, startling, and expansive journey into the mysteries of the brain and what makes us human.
Author |
: Bernie Devlin |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 394 |
Release |
: 1997-08-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0387949860 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780387949864 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Intelligence, Genes, and Success by : Bernie Devlin
A scientific response to the best-selling The Bell Curve which set off a hailstorm of controversy upon its publication in 1994. Much of the public reaction to the book was polemic and failed to analyse the details of the science and validity of the statistical arguments underlying the books conclusion. Here, at last, social scientists and statisticians reply to The Bell Curve and its conclusions about IQ, genetics and social outcomes.
Author |
: Keith E. Stanovich |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 325 |
Release |
: 2009-01-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300142532 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300142536 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis What Intelligence Tests Miss by : Keith E. Stanovich
Critics of intelligence tests writers such as Robert Sternberg, Howard Gardner, and Daniel Goleman have argued in recent years that these tests neglect important qualities such as emotion, empathy, and interpersonal skills. However, such critiques imply that though intelligence tests may miss certain key noncognitive areas, they encompass most of what is important in the cognitive domain. In this book, Keith E. Stanovich challenges this widely held assumption.Stanovich shows that IQ tests (or their proxies, such as the SAT) are radically incomplete as measures of cognitive functioning. They fail to assess traits that most people associate with good thinking, skills such as judgment and decision making. Such cognitive skills are crucial to real-world behavior, affecting the way we plan, evaluate critical evidence, judge risks and probabilities, and make effective decisions. IQ tests fail to assess these skills of rational thought, even though they are measurable cognitive processes. Rational thought is just as important as intelligence, Stanovich argues, and it should be valued as highly as the abilities currently measured on intelligence tests.