Robert J. Sternberg

Applied Intelligence (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Typical texts develop students' knowledge while only minimally developing the general skills they will need for success in school and in life. The goal of our text is to assist students in acquiring the most important skills for facing the diverse challenges life presents. The book contains an overview of theories of intelligence, but itself is based in large part on a theory according to which individuals need creative skills to generate new ideas and a vision for the future, analytical skills to make sure that the vision is a good one, and practical skills to execute the ideas and to persuade other people of their value. The book considers key skills in problem solving, logical reasoning, analysis of arguments, knowledge acquisition, creative and practical thinking, automatizing information processing, and avoiding life traps that derail even the most intelligent among us.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511389238
• Artikelnr.: 38202509

Autorenporträt

Robert J. Sternberg is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology at Tufts University. Prior to being at Tufts, he was IBM Professor of Psychology and Education, Professor of Management in the School of Management, and Director of the Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise at Yale University. This center, now relocated to Tufts, is dedicated to the advancement of theory, research, practice, and policy advancing the notion of intelligence as developing expertise, as a construct that is modifiable and capable, to some extent, of development throughout the lifespan. The Center seeks to have an impact on science, education, and society. Sternberg was the 2003 President of the American Psychological Association and is the 2006¿2007 President of the Eastern Psychological Association. He was on the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Association and the Board of Trustees of the APA Insurance Trust. He is currently on the Board of Trustees of the American Psychological Foundation and on the Board of Directors of the Eastern Psychological Association as well as of the American Association of Colleges and Universities. Sternberg received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1975 and his B.A. from Yale University. He holds honorary doctorates from eight universities. He is the author of over 1,100 journal articles, chapters, and books. He focuses his research on intelligence, creativity, and wisdom and has studied love and close relationships as well as hate. This research has been conducted on five different continents.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Views of intelligence
2. The theory of successful human intelligence
3. Metacognition: thinking with metacomponents
4. Advanced problem-solving steps
5. Cognitive processing: performance components (I)
6. Cognitive processing: performance components (II)
7. Logical reasoning and analysis of arguments: performance components (III)
8. Inference and inferential fallacies
9. Knowledge-acquisition components
10. Coping with novelty
11. Deciding for creativity
12. Automatizing information processing
13. Practical intelligence
14. Why intelligent people fail (too often).