Intelligence and how to get it : why schools and cultures count / Richard E. Nisbett
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TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2009Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 304 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 0393065057; 9780393065053Subject(s): Culture | Intellect | Schools| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | Gratia Christian College Library Book Shelves | Print book | BF431 .N47 2009 (Browse shelf) | Available | 0004286K |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-282) and index.
Varieties of intelligence -- Heritability and mutability - - Getting smarter -- Improving the schools -- Social class and cognitive culture -- IQ in black and white -- Mind the gap -- Advantage Asia? -- People of the book -- Raising your child's intelligence ... and your own -- Epilogue : what we now know about intelligence and academic achievement -- Appendix A : infomal definitions of statistical terms -- The case for a purely environmental basis for black/white differences in IQ.
Nisbett debunks the myth of genetic inheritance of intelligence and persuasively demonstrates how intelligence can be enhanced : the anti-Bell Curve book--Provided by publisher.