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10620 Human Intelligence

Credits: 3 intermediate credits in Psychology

Prerequisite: Introduction to Statistics for Students of Social Sciences I

Recommended: Introduction to Psychology, Research Methods in Social Sciences

Authors: Baruch Nevo, Yossi Tzelgov, Maure Goldschmidt, Richard Schuster, Rachel Zorman, Moshe Zeidner. The materials include a translation of J.D. Mayer, D. Caruso, & P. Salovey, “Emotional intelligence meets traditional standards for an intelligence,” Intelligence, 27, (2000), 267-298, a discussion of “Intelligence: Knowns and unknowns,” Report of a Task Force established by the Board of Scientific Affairs of the American Psychological Association (1995), and articles that are periodically updated.

The course provides basic knowledge and analytical tools for understanding phenomena related to the various aspects of human intelligence. It reviews various theories dealing with the essence of intelligence and demonstrates methods to measure it, and discusses central issues in the field.

Topics: Intelligence, definitions, theories and measurement: introduction – what is intelligence?, theories of intelligence, IQ tests, selected issues regarding IQ tests, the brain and intelligence; Development of intelligence, influences and abnormal phenomena: development of intelligence from infancy to adulthood, development of intelligence from adulthood to old age, the heredity of intelligence, intelligence and environmental influences, mental retardation, giftedness; Intelligence and related fields: intelligence and cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, creativity, non-scholastic intelligence, intelligence and personality.