INTELLIGENCE AND HOW TO GET IT
Why Schools and Culture Count
Richard E. Nisbett
W.W. Norton & Company, 2009
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Explore the underestimated influence of environment on intelligence
• Optimize this effect to raise individual and group intelligence
• Explore the varieties of intelligence
• Assess how heritability has been overestimated in intelligence testing research
• Assess how environmental effects have raised intelligence levels and how these effects can be employed in school settings
• Demonstrate how social class and culture affect these effects and how these effects can be employed in different racial and ethnic groups
• Evaluate how the racial gap in intelligence has been overestimated
• Explore the causes of apparent advantages for Asian peoples
• Explore the cultural effects of reading and individual applications of these effects
Richard E. Nisbett is the Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan. He has received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, the William James Fellow Award of the American Psychological Society, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
9 CE credits; 304 pages
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