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Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence Hardcover – March 1, 1995

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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 390 pages
  • Publisher: Free Press (March 1, 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0029252121
  • ISBN-13: 978-0029252123
  • Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 1.2 x 9.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #815,108 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Format: Hardcover
What is the nature of intelligence? How and to what extent can intelligence be developed? What aspects of intelligence can de identified and what aspects especially demand attention? While the classic view of intelligence implies that intelligence is a fixed, genetically determined characteristic of individuals this book presents a different perspective: a theory of learnable intelligence clarifying to what extent and how our intelligence can be amplified. Three dimensions of intelligence are identified: 1) neural intelligence: neurological speed and precision; in large part genetically determined, 2) experiential intelligence: extensive common knowledge and skill and specialized knowledge and skill; learned, 3) reflective intelligence: strategies for memory, problem solving, mental self-monitoring, meta-cognition; learned. Perkins argues that reflective intelligence offers the best opportunity for improving intelligent thought and behavior. Perkins identifies important pitfalls in human thinking and reasoning and shows how to avoid them. The author acknowledges that intellectual talent is a real phenomenon and does not deny any intellectual differences in intellectual talent. He argues that most people can learn to use whatever intellectual talents they have much better than they normally do. This book, which reminds of the work of Robert Sternberg, is a true must for anyone interested in theories of intelligence.
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Format: Hardcover
Profound Thinking By Example

This is the single best book I've come across on the potential for improving human thinking ability. I give it my highest recommendation; I think it should be read by everyone interested in problem solving, decision making, and human abilities in general. It is amazingly broad in its coverage of data, profoundly deep in its treatment of specific lines of relevant evidence, and ingenious in its vision of the future.

What impressed me most about this book is that the author, David Perkins, demonstrates the power of deep reflective thinking by his own example in the organization and treatment of evidence throughout this book, in his critical treatment of his own evidence and ideas, in his creative original ideas, and in his effective consolidation and filtering of massive amounts of research. Showing how asking the right questions can help us understand seemingly contradictory data about intelligence, Perkins gives an engaging plausibility proof for the kind of reflective intelligence he argues for in this book.

The Concept of Realms of Thinking

To give away the ending, the book culminates in a model of problem solving ability based on the metaphor of a map. Human thinking ability results from learning our way around. Navigation is fundamental to all sorts of human thinking. Perkins suggests that all intelligent human thinking results from navigation of various kinds, which can be thought of in terms of levels of realms. Perkins organizes the realms in an overall map or "mindscape" from the lowest level of specific contexts of thinking to the highest level dealing with thinking itself.
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Format: Hardcover
I really didn't expect this book to be this book. I was kind of expecting a book that would increase my intelligence. However, I found myself stumbling into an area that has been for years my interest, but not my field of pursuit. I'm just a high school student (1999) and I believe that this book opened to me a portal to a subject that is uncommon yet inherent in all human beings. This book gives a history of the many theories and proposals of intelligence and arranges and analyzes them into a conglomeration of understandable concepts weaved together. If you want to know everything (well, almost) about intelligence, how it works, and why researchers have different views on it, and why there is an argument of whether intelligence can be learned, this is a perfect book for you to be introduced, and be well-informed about the intricacies of human reasoning and processing. This book is quite long though, you have to read about 340 pages of almost pure text, which at times can be a bore. But who said this was for entertainment anyway? Reading this book is not a joke; it can't be. I gave this book a five not just because the writer is from Harvard but because his reasoning is Harvard. The author introduced me to a world of mystery (with psychological bases of course) and has, in a matter of speaking, made me an "intelligent" addict. It is to my sincere thinking that people who will read this book will never be the same again.
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Format: Hardcover
I own this book and it's a smart start to learning about intelligence. P.S. The boy from the Phillipines has a good assessment of this book. As to the reviewer who said he needed to go to college before he spoke or wrote--well at least HE can spell and type!
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