Future bright : a transforming vision of human intelligence / Michael E. Martinez.

Ever since Alfred Binet invented the first IQ test more than a century ago, we have thought of intelligence as fixed from birth and unalterable-as genetically programmed and immutable as eye color. If our IQ was 115 at the age of eighteen, it would be 115 at age thirty-two and at age seventy-two. Bu...

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Main Author: Martinez, Michael E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Summary:Ever since Alfred Binet invented the first IQ test more than a century ago, we have thought of intelligence as fixed from birth and unalterable-as genetically programmed and immutable as eye color. If our IQ was 115 at the age of eighteen, it would be 115 at age thirty-two and at age seventy-two. But as Michael Martinez reveals in Future Bright, human intelligence is not at all a static quality. Drawing on cutting-edge research, Martinez shows that not only can we improve our IQ scores--with the right approach, we can improve intelligence itself. Future Bright introduces the radical view that.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-289) and index.
ISBN:9780199781935
0199781931
1299712800
9781299712805
9780190256050
0190256052
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.