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The g Factor The Science of Mental Ability

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Arthur R. Jensen

ISBN: 0-275-96103-6

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96103-9

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664 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 2/28/1998

List Price: $102.95 (UK Sterling Price: £71.95)

Availability: Print on demand

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence

Description: Jensen provides a comprehensive treatment of one of the major constructs of behavioral science—general mental ability—labeled the g factor by its discoverer, Charles Spearman. The g factor is about individual differences in mental abilities. In factor analyses of any and every large and diverse collection of measures of mental abilities, however varied the content of knowledge and skills they call upon, g emerges as the largest, most general source of differences between individuals and between certain subpopulations.

Jensen fully and clearly explains the psychometric, statistical, genetic, and physiological basis of g, as well as the major theoretical challenges to the concept. For decades a key construct in differential psychology, the g factor's significance for scholars and researchers in the brain sciences as well as education, sociology, anthropology, evolutionary psychology, economics, and public policy is clearly evident in this, the most comprehensive treatment of g ever published.

Table of Contents:

Preface
A Little History
The Discovery of g
The Trouble with "Intelligence"
Models and Characteristics of g
Challenges to g
Biological Correlates to g
The Heritability of g
Information Processing and g
The Practical Validity of g
Construct, Vehicles, and Measurements
Population Differences in g
Population Differences in g: Hypothesized Causes
Sex Differences in g
The g Nexus
Appendix A: Spearman's "Law of Diminishing Returns"
Appendix B: Method of Correlated Vectors
Appendix C: Multivariate Analyses of a Nexus
References
Index

About the Author: ARTHUR R. JENSEN is Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley. During the 40 years of his tenure at Berkeley, he has been a prolific researcher in the psychology of human learning, individual differences in cognitive abilities, psychometrics, behavioral genetics, and mental chronometry. His work, published in six earlier books and some 400 articles in scientific and professional journals, has placed him among the most frequently cited figures in contemporary psychology.

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