Intelligence and giftedness : the contributions of heredity and early environment
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Intelligence and giftedness : the contributions of heredity and early environment
（The Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series）（The Jossey-Bass education series）
Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1990
1st ed.
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Bibliography:p. 537-607
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Description
This study challenges many theories that have emerged to explain giftedness. Storfer integrates findings of recent studies - research on identical twins, IQ correlations between parents and children and examination of the effects of family structure and economic background on intelligence. He also links environment, culture and biology to intellectual development. Expanding on these findings, Storfer offers a plausible argument for the "cooperation" between heredity and environment in the phenomenal rise in average IQ.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Factors influencing IQ scores among family members: what studies of identical twins tell us about IQ
- effects of birth order, parental age, and number of siblings on IQ
- resemblances among family members' IQs
- how adoption influences IQ. Part 2 Changes in IQ scores over time: evidence that IQ has been rising
- the black, white IQ disparity - myth and reality. Part 3 Effects of the early home environment on IQ: evaluating tests that measure IQ in infancy and toddlerhood. Part 4 The foundations of intellectual giftedness: successful early educational enrichment programmes
- accelerating an infant's cognitive development
- stimulating language comprehension and expression in the early years
- how Japanese mothering practices heighten spatial structural reasoning ability
- the nurturing of verbal conceptual reasoning abilities in Jewish families. Part 5 Intellectual giftedness and connections to biology: one brain, two hemispheres, three memory systems
- types of giftedness
- unusual biological traits in intellectually gifted people. Part 6 The recent evolution in intelligence and giftedness: the twentieth-century rise in IQ - a discussion of causes
- toward a new theory of human intellectual "Evolution"
- the multi-generational development of intellectual giftedness. Appendix - intelligence and the intra-uterine environment.
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