The history of testing mental abilities has seen the dominance of two contrasting approaches, psychometrics and neuropsychology. These two traditions have different theories and methodologies, but overlap considerably in the tests they use. Historically, psychometrics has emphasized the primacy of a general factor, while neuropsychology has emphasized specific abilities that are dissociable. This issue about the nature of human mental abilities is important for many practical concerns. Questions such as gender, ethnic, and age-related differences in mental abilities are relatively easy to address if they are due to a single dominant trait. Presumably such a trait can be measured with any collection of complex cognitive tests. If there are many specific mental abilities, these would be much harder to measure and associated social issues would be more difficult to resolve. The relative importance of general and specific abilities also has implications for educational practices. This book includes the diverse opinions of experts from several fields including psychometrics, neuropsychology, speech language and hearing, and applied psychology.
€142.56
购买此电子书可免费获赠一本！
格式 PDF ● 网页 485 ● ISBN 9781527550476 ● 编辑 Dennis J. McFarland ● 出版者 Cambridge Scholars Publishing ● 发布时间 2020 ● 下载 3 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 9278698 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
需要具备DRM功能的电子书阅读器
来自同一作者的更多电子书 / 编辑
77,374 此类电子书
