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PSYCHOLOGY · INTELLECT

Robert J. Sternberg

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American psychologist and psychometrician; Provost at Oklahoma State University.

If one were to make a list of the many abilities people can have, one would find that virtually no one is proficient in all the skills constituting all these abilities, and virtually no one is hopelessly inept in all these skills.

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Our labeled children

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The percentage of school-age children in this country who have been labeled as having a learning disability is on the rise and may soon reach twenty percent. But what is a genuine learning disability and how does it differ from garden-variety poor learning? How can we more accurately assess children's abilities, and then teach to learning strengths instead of to weaknesses? From the biological bases of dyslexia and other disabilities, to the tests that do and do not accurately assess learning abilities, to the social and educational pressures that contribute to misdiagnois in this country, the authors outline the issues that concern both parents and teachers, to help children with all manner of learning problems.

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Introduction to psychology

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This completely updated edition uses current popular introductory psychology textbooks as a guideline for changes, including: new combined chapter on Methodologies and Statistics; new information on the effects of the nervous system; expanded chapter on consciousness; updated theories of emotions; revised chapter on Cognitive Processes; and new material on stress and health psychology.

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Psychology

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"(From the 1892 preface) In preparing the following abridgment of my larger work, the Principles of Psychology, my chief aim has been to make it more directly available for class-room use. For this purpose I have omitted several whole chapters and rewritten others. I have left out all the polemical and historical matter, all the metaphysical discussions and purely speculative passages, most of the quotations, all the book-references, and (I trust) all the impertinences, of the larger work, leaving to the teacher the choice of orally restoring as much of this material as may seem to him good, along with his own remarks on the topics successively studied. Knowing how ignorant the average student is of physiology, I have added brief chapters on the various senses. In this shorter work the general point of view, which I have adopted as that of 'natural science, ' has, I imagine, gained in clearness by its extrication from so much critical matter and its more simple and dogmatic statement. About two fifths of the volume is either new or rewritten, the rest is 'scissors and paste.' I regret to have been unable to supply chapters on pleasure and pain, aesthetics, and the moral sense. Possibly the defect may be made up in a later edition, if such a thing should ever be demanded."--(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).

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