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Intelligence and how to get it : why schools and cultures count / Richard E. Nisbett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 304 pages illustrations 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780393065053 (hardcover)
  • 0393065057 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153.9 22
LOC classification:
  • BF 431 .N57 2009
Contents:
Varieties of intelligence -- Heritability and mutability -- Getting smarter -- Improving the schools -- Social class and cognitive culture -- IQ in black and white -- Mind the gap -- Advantage Asia? -- People of the book -- Raising your child's intelligence ... and your own -- Epilogue: What we now know about intelligence and academic achievement.
Summary: Nisbett debunks the myth of genetic inheritance of intelligence and persuasively demonstrates how intelligence can be enhanced: the anti-Bell Curve book.--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-282) and index.

Varieties of intelligence -- Heritability and mutability -- Getting smarter -- Improving the schools -- Social class and cognitive culture -- IQ in black and white -- Mind the gap -- Advantage Asia? -- People of the book -- Raising your child's intelligence ... and your own -- Epilogue: What we now know about intelligence and academic achievement.

Nisbett debunks the myth of genetic inheritance of intelligence and persuasively demonstrates how intelligence can be enhanced: the anti-Bell Curve book.--From publisher description.

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