Format:
Online-Ressource (774 p.)
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24 cm
Series Statement:
The Century psychology series
Content:
"This book of readings is designed to meet what we feel is a critical need in contemporary courses in tests and measurements and differential psychology. The two editors have taught one or another of these courses more than one hundred times. We hold that at least three requisite things--good psychological judgment, an elusive quality called perspective, and a grasp of the strategies of psychological measurement--are fostered most rapidly when students encounter original research papers in their historical sequence. In searching for a topic to serve as a model problem in measurement we quickly settled on intelligence. In selecting this one topic it is obvious that we have no intention of supplanting current textbooks, which, in fact, we believe are of very high quality. However, these textbooks by their very nature cannot give the student the kind of understanding of the work and the workers that we are striving for here. It is our conviction that this book will supplement the standard texts in a valuable way for students with inquiring minds and an intellectual curiosity about the origins of the evidence upon which our present knowledge of intelligence rests. Despite our efforts to include examples of most of the important methodologies, our sampling of modern statistical methods is weak, unavoidably so, we believe, in a book that preserves a reasonable size. We do claim, however, that the interplay between problems and methodologies is adequately and tellingly demonstrated. Most of the "hot" issues, such as racial and national differences, have been touched on at least once. In the preparation of this book we have considered hundreds of other studies, but in the end we have been forced to settle on this set, discarding many papers of equal value. Overall, we do not claim that these are the best, and certainly not the only, readings that might have been included. We do feel, however, that those we have selected are valuable, thought-provoking, and representative of the chief contributions to the field"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)
Note:
Electronic reproduction; Washington, D.C; American Psychological Association; 2005; Available via the World Wide Web; Access limited by licensing agreement; s2005 dcunns
Language:
English
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