Mackintosh N.J. IQ and Human Intelligence

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. — 427 p.The study and measurement of human intelligence is one of the most controversial subjects in psychology. For much of its history, the focus has been on differences between people, what it means for one individual to be more intelligent than the other, and how such differences might have arisen. With the emphasis on these issues, the efforts to understand the general nature of intelligence have been obscured.
The author provides clear, comprehensive, and extremely readable introduction to this difficult subject. In addition to a discussion of the traditional topics raised by IQ tests, this book attempts to bring the theory and data of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience to bear on some of these other, equally important scientific questions.The early development and uses of IQ tests
Psychometric theories of intelligence
The heritability of IQ
Environmental effects on IQ
Group differences
Factor analysis and the structure of human abilities
The search for general intelligence: simple behavioural and neurological correlates of IQ
The search for cognitive operations underlying specific components of IQ: verbal and spatial abilities
Fluid intelligence, reasoning, and problem solving
Theories of intelligence
EpilogueAuthor index
Subject index