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| Author | : Arthur Robert Jensen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9780029164402 |
This book is for those of the general public who want to learn more about mental testing and its controversies. It presupposes no background in the specialized terminologies or mathematical underpinnings of psychometrics, statistics, or quantitative genetics that make most of the serious literature on the "IQ controversy" so inaccessible to the educated public who are not professionals in the field of mental measurement.
| Author | : Ellen Braaten |
| Publisher | : Guilford Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2003-11-26 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9781572307872 |
Braaten and Felopulos describe how the evaluation process occurs in children, including the role (if any) that testing plays in diagnosing and devising treatment plans for dyslexia, ADHD, math and reading disorders, autism and Asperger syndrome, depression, anxiety, and other conditions.
| Author | : Jon Ronson |
| Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2011-06-03 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1447202503 |
What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness. Along the way, Jon meets psychopaths, those whose lives have been touched by madness and those whose job it is to diagnose it, including the influential psychologist who developed the Psychopath Test, from whom Jon learns the art of psychopath-spotting. A skill which seemingly reveals that madness could indeed be at the heart of everything . . . Combining Jon Ronson's trademark humour, charm and investigative incision, The Psychopath Test is both entertaining and honest, unearthing dangerous truths and asking serious questions about how we define normality in a world where we are increasingly judged by our maddest edges. 'The belly laughs come thick and fast – my God, he is funny . . . provocative and interesting' – Observer
| Author | : Timothy E. Wilens |
| Publisher | : Guilford Publications |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2016-04-22 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 1462519857 |
"When a child is struggling with an emotional or behavioral problem, parents face many difficult decisions. Is medication the right choice? What about side effects? How long will medication be needed? In this authoritative guide, leading child psychiatrists Drs. Timothy Wilens and Paul Hammerness explain the nuts and bolts of psychiatric medications--from how they work and potential risks to their impact on a child's emotions, school performance, personality, and health. Extensively revised to include the latest information about medications and their uses, the fourth edition is even more accessible, and includes pullouts, bulleted lists, and "take home points" highlighting critical facts. In addition to parents, this is an ideal reference for teachers and other school professionals"--
| Author | : Marilyn Trainer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Down syndrome |
| ISBN | : |
Presents essays by parents of children with mental retardation.
| Author | : Arthur Robert Jensen |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 419 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0415678560 |
Jensen is a controversial figure, largely for his conclusions based on his and other research regarding the causes of race based differences in intelligence and in this book he develops more fully the argument he formulated in his controversial Harvard Education Review article 'How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?'. In a wide-ranging survey of the evidence he argues that measured IQ reveals a strong hereditary component and he argues that the system of education which assumes an almost wholly environmentalist view of the causes of group differences capitalizes on a relatively narrow category of human abilities. Since its original publication the controversy surrounding Jensen's ideas has continued as successive generations of psychologists, scientists and policy-makers have grappled with the same issues.
| Author | : Frank Nugent Freeman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 524 |
| Release | : 1926 |
| Genre | : Intelligence tests |
| ISBN | : |
In this book, the author has shown how the mental test idea was evolved out of the laboratory study of individual differences by psychologists, how the individual and then the group intelligence tests were developed, the application of statistical methods to the interpretation of the results, the creation of the different types of scales, the extension of the mental test idea in new directions, the technique and theory of the tests, the uses of the different types of mental tests, and their reliability, and has closed his treatment with two chapters on the interpretation of what the tests really measure and the nature of intelligence itself. The work of hundreds of individual investigators has been organized into a systematic treatise, and the place and work of each have been given their proper setting as parts of a great movement. The volume is accordingly offered to teachers of college and university classes in Mental Tests with confidence that it will prove as useful in this field as the texts now in use have done in the field of educational tests. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).
| Author | : Arthur Robert Jensen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 806 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : |
Illuminating detailed methods for assessing bias in commonly used I.Q., aptitude, and achievement tests, Jensen argues that standardized tests are not biased against Englishspeaking minority groups and describes the uses of such tests in education and employment.
| Author | : Frank Nugent Freeman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 503 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Intelligence tests |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Virgil Everett Dickson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 1923 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : |
