The Rough Guide to Psychology An Introduction to Human Behaviour and the Mind (Rough Guides)
INTELLIGENCE innate mental ability. In line with his belief that geniuses are born, not made, Galton thought his tests could enc ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY and a few others, managed to convince the US military of the value of their new-fangled intelligen ...
INTELLIGENCE Most of the standardized intelligence tests in use today were devel- oped by David Wechsler, a test administrator f ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY white people (little wonder, given that black people were generally less educated and poorer). Whe ...
INTELLIGENCE stood at over thirty countries. Rather than our brains having undergone some kind of collective upgrade, however, F ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY Creativity A key aspect of mental prowess and career success that most psychologists agree isn’t t ...
INTELLIGENCE (Answers at the bottom of p.201.) Another popular measure of creativity is Karl Dunker’s Candle Problem. Imagine yo ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY It’s the final eureka stage that leads us to forget all the hard work and thought that’s gone befo ...
INTELLIGENCE thousand. Serious amateurs, by contrast, clocked in at just two thou- sand hours. More recently, in 2008, Joanne Ru ...
If you’re at a dull dinner party and you want to spice things up, the topic of gender usually works a treat. Which sex is more i ...
GENDER AND SPECIES DIFFERENCES and more white matter, which is the insulated, connective type of neural tissue. Women’s brains t ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY men than women tend to display either extremely poor or extremely strong ability in a subject. Fem ...
GENDER AND SPECIES DIFFERENCES after his parents took the advice of a psychologist, John Money, who believed that gender identit ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl, was that he never took to being a girl. Reim ...
GENDER AND SPECIES DIFFERENCES that are in a crisis. Recent examples include Lynn Elsenhans’s appoint- ment as CEO of the oil co ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY Comparing Species Whether it’s “Dog dials 999 to rescue owner” or “Monkey solves cross- word!”, ba ...
GENDER AND SPECIES DIFFERENCES dogs were tested in pairs and only one dog was rewarded with treats, the unrewarded dog stopped p ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY created a test of eidetic or “photographic” memory. Human participants and two chimps watched a co ...
GENDER AND SPECIES DIFFERENCES own. What is it, then, that’s allowed the human mind to scale new heights of achievement and cult ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY is mental symbols, allowing us to represent events, real or imagined, through art and language. Fi ...
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