Doing something about g

Brand, Chris

doi:10.1016/s0160-2896(96)90025-2

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“…Rather, traditional tests focus much more on measuring past learning, which can be the result of differences in many factors, including motivation and available opportunities to learn. Some theories of intelligence extend this definition by suggesting that there is a general factor of intelligence, often labeled g, that underlies all adaptive behavior (Brand, 1996;Jensen, 1998; see essays in Sternberg & Grigorenko, 2002b). In many theories, including the theories most widely accepted today (e.g., Carroll, 1993;Gustafsson, 1994;Horn, 1994), other mental abilities are hierarchically nested under this general factor at successively greater levels of specificity.…”

Section: Formal Theories Of Intelligencementioning

confidence: 99%

Intelligence, race, and genetics.

Sternberg

Grigorenko

Kídd

2005

American Psychologist

175

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In this article, the authors argue that the overwhelming portion of the literature on intelligence, race, and genetics is based on folk taxonomies rather than scientific analysis. They suggest that because theorists of intelligence disagree as to what it is, any consideration of its relationships to other constructs must be tentative at best. They further argue that race is a social construction with no scientific definition. Thus, studies of the relationship between race and other constructs may serve social ends but cannot serve scientific ends. No gene has yet been conclusively linked to intelligence, so attempts to provide a compelling genetic link of race to intelligence are not feasible at this time. The authors also show that heritability, a behavior-genetic concept, is inadequate in regard to providing such a link.

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Section: Formal Theories Of Intelligencementioning

confidence: 99%