What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect

by James R. Flynn

Book Overview

Professor James Flynn is one of the most creative and influential psychologists in the field of intelligence. The 'Flynn Effect' refers to the massive increase in IQ test scores over the course of the twentieth century and the term was coined to recognize Professor Flynn's central role in measuring and analyzing these gains. For over twenty years, psychologists have struggled to understand the implications of IQ gains. Do they mean that each generation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521880076
• ISBN13: 9780521880077
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"