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The Abilities of Man, Their Nature and Measurement (1927)
by Charles Spearman. 456 pgs.

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Foreword

Table of Contents

Appendix Contents

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Part I: The Rival Doctrines

Chapter II: Monarchic Doctrine: "Intelligence"

Chapter III: Oligarchic Doctrine: Formal Faculties

Chapter IV: Oligarchic Doctrine: Types

Chapter V: Anarchic Doctrine: "General Level," "Aver Age," or "Sample"

Chapter VI: Eclectic Doctrine: Two Factors

Chapter VII: Proposed Explanations of G

Chapter VIII: Universal Mental Competition

Chapter IX: Hypothesis of Mental Energy

Part II: The Fundamental Facts

Chapter XI: Universality of G

Chapter XII: Amount of G in Different Kinds of Eduction

Chapter XIII: "Special Abilities "And "Group Factors"

Chapter XIV: Goodness and Speed of Response

Chapter XV: Mental Span. Distribution of "Attention"

Chapter XVI: Law of Retentivity of Dispositions

Chapter XVII: Law of Inertia. "Perseveration

Chapter XVIII: Law of Fatigue

Chapter XIX: Oscillations in Efficiency

Chapter XX: Law of Conation. W and C.

Chapter XXI: Influence of Age

Chapter XXII: Heredity and Sex

Chapter XXIII: Mind and Body

Chapter XXIV: Cardinal Conclusions

Appendix

Index
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Psychology Down the Ages, Vol. I (1937)
by Charles Spearman. 458 pgs.

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DEDICATION

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations, Diagrams, Etc.

PROLOGUE

PART A WHAT PSYCHOLOGY IS ABOUT

Chapter I Science of the Psyche

Chapter II Renunciation of Physiology

Chapter III Renunciation of Philosophy

Chapter IV Psychological Methods: Psychology As It Is

PART B WHAT THE PSYCHE CAN DO

Chapter V Classical Intellect

Chapter VI Modern "Intelligence"

Chapter VII "Attention"

Chapter VIII Sensory Faculties

Chapter IX Other Faculties of Knowledge

Chapter X "Orectic Faculties

Chapter XI Faculties or Chaos?

PART C HOW THE PSYCHE IS CONSTITUTED

Chapter XII Basis of Sensory Perception

Chapter XIII Perception of Relations

Chapter XIV Perceptual Supplements

Chapter XV Ways of Regarding

Chapter XVI Thought

Chapter XVII Mental Dynamics

Chapter XVIII Mental States

Chapter XIX Units of Behaviour

Chapter XX Complexes of Behaviour

Chapter XXI Unconscious Mind

Chapter XXII "I" and "Self"

Chapter XXIII Mental Unity

Chapter XXIV The Confusion That is Gestalt Psychology

Chapter XXV General Mental Constitution
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Psychology Down the Ages, Vol. II (1937)
by Charles Spearman. 362 pgs.

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Part D What Follows What

Chapter XXVI Psychological Need of Laws

Chapter XXVII Nature of Scientific Law

Chapter XXVIII Association of Ideas

Chapter XXIX Law of Retentivity: Dispositions

Chapter XXX Law of Retentivity: Inertia

Chapter XXXI Law of Control

Chapter XXXII Law of Constant Output

Chapter XXXIII Law of Fatigue

Chapter XXXIV Laws of "Noegenesis"

Chapter XXXV Alleged Laws of "Orexis"

Chapter XXXVI Laws of Basal Conditions

E What Goes with What

Chapter XXXVII Faculties Past and Present

Chapter XXXVIII the New Typology

Chapter Xxxix Correlation Coefficients

Chapter XL Discovery of "G"

Chapter XLI Specific Factors in Ability

Chapter XLII Orectic Factors

Epilogue

Notes

Index of Subjects

Index to Names
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The Nature of 'Intelligence' and the Principles of Cognition (1923)
by Charles Spearman. 360 pgs.

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Chapter I "Intelligence" in Modern Psychology

PART I INTRODUCTORY AND CRITICAL

Chapter II Psychological Ultimate Laws

PART II CONSTRUCTIVE

Chapter III "Sensation" and Its Antecedents

Chapter IV First Principle, Apprehension of Experience

Chapter V Second Principle, Eduction of Relations

Chapter VI Varieties of Relation-Educing

Chapter VII Third Principle, Eduction of Correlates

Chapter VIII Some Special Cases of Eduction

Chapter IX Quantitative Principles

Chapter X Reproduction and Correlate-Eduction

Chapter XI Clearness, Differentiation, and Subconsciousness

Chapter XII: THOUGHT AND SENTIENCE

Chapter XIII: A GREAT ILLUSION

Chapter XIV Experiments in Objectivating

PART III APPLICATIVE

Chapter XV Perception and Movement

Chapter XVI the Intellect: Conception

Chapter XVII the Intellect: Judgment

Chapter XVIII the Intellect: Reasoning

Chapter XIX Memory

Chapter XX: IMAGINATION

Chapter XXI Summary and Outlook

INDEX OF NAMES
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Spearman's Hypothesis and Test Score Differences between Whites, Indians, and Blacks in South Africa, in Journal of General Psychology
by Richard Lynn, Kenneth Owen. 10 pgs.

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Psychologies of 1930 (1930) (Chap. 18 "'G' and after - A School to End Schools" and Chap. 22 "Normality")
by Carl Murchison. 497 pgs.

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Psychologies of 1930

The International University Series in Psychology

The International University Series in Psychology

Preface

Table of Contents

Photographs of Contributors

Part I the Hormic Psychology

Chapter 1 the Hormic Psychology

Part II "Act" or "Intentional" Psychology and Associationism

Chapter 2 Associationism and "Act" Psychology a Historical Retrospect

Part III Functional Psychology

Chapter 3 Functionalism

Part IV Psychological Theories of Those Whose Training Background Was the Structuralism of E. B. Titchener

Chapter 4 a System of Motor Psychology

Chapter 5 a Psychology for Psychologists

Chapter 6 Psychology for Eclectics

Chapter 7 Structural Psychology

Part V Configurational Psychologies

Chapter 8 Some Tasks of Gestalt Psychology

Chapter 9 Some Problems of Space Perception

Chapter 10 Structure, Totality of Experience, and Gestalt

Part VI Russian Psychologies

Chapter 11 a Brief Outline of the Higher Nervous Activity

Chapter 12 Bekhterev's Reflexological School

Chapter 13 Psychology in the Light of Dialectic Materialism

Part VII Behaviorism

Chapter 14 Anthroponomy and Psychology

Chapter 15 the Biosocial Standpoint in Psychology

Part VIII Reaction Psychology

Chapter 16 Response Psychology

Part IX Dynamic Psychology

Chapter 17 Dynamic Psychology

Part X "Factor" School of Psychology

Chapter 18 "G" and After—a School to End Schools

Part XI Analytical Psychologies

Chapter 19 L'Analyse Psychologique

Chapter 20 Psychoanalysis Its Status and Promise

Chapter 21 Individual Psychology

Part XII Some of the Problems Fundamental to All Psychology

Chapter 22 Conduct and Experience

Chapter 23 the Inheritance of Mental Traits

Chapter 24 Normality

Chapter 25 Motivational Psychology

Name Index

Subject Index
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The Intelligence Men: Makers of the IQ Controversy ("Charles Spearman and General Intelligence" begins on p. 87, "Spearman and Binet" begins on p. 93 and "Critical Reactions to Spearman's Theory" begins on p. 96)
by Raymond E. Fancher. 269 pgs.

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The Intelligence Men: Makers of the IQ Controversy

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List of Portraits

Preface

1: The Nature-Nurture Controversy

2: The Invention of Intelligence Tests

3: Intelligence Redefined

4: The Rise of Intelligence Testing

5: Twins and the Genetics of Iq

6: Conclusion

Notes

Index
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The Mismeasure of Man (Chap. Six "The Real Error of Cyril Burt Factor Analysis and the Reification of Intelligence")
by Stephen Jay Gould. 444 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction to the Revised and Expanded Edition Thoughts at Age Fifteen

One: Introduction

Two: American Polygeny and Craniometry before Darwin Blacks and Indians as Separate, Inferior Species

Three: Measuring Heads Paul Broca and the Heyday of Craniology

Four: Measuring Bodies Two Case Studies on the Apishness of Undesirables

Five: The Hereditarian Theory of IQ an American Invention

Six: The Real Error of Cyril Burt Factor Analysis and the Reification of Intelligence

Seven: A Positive Conclusion

Epilogue

Critique of the Bell Curve

Three Centuries' Perspectives on Race and Racism

Bibliography

Index
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Human Abilities: Their Nature and Measurement (Chap. 1 "A Three - Stratum Theory of Intelligence: Spearman's Contribution," Chap. 4 "Is Working Memory Capacity Spearman's G?" and "Charles Spearman and after" begins on p. 133)
by Ian Dennis, Patrick Tapsfield. 194 pgs.

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Contributors

Introduction: The Abilities of Man Revisited

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Chapter 1 a Three-Stratum Theory of Intelligence: Spearman's Contribution

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Chapter 2 a Cultural Ecology of Cognition

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Chapter 3 Concepts of Ability

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Chapter 4 is Working Memory Capacity Spearman's G?

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Chapter 5 Human Abilities and Modes of Attention: the Issue of Stylistic Consistencies in Cognition

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Chapter 6 Spatial Ability and G

INTRODUCTION

CONCLUSIONS

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Chapter 7 Multidimensional Latent Trait Models in Measuring Fundamental Aspects of Intelligence

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Chapter 8 Models for an "Objective" Assessment of Treatment Effects Based on Item Response Data

CONCLUSION

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Chapter 9 Predicting Occupational Criteria: Not Much More Than G

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Chapter 10 Matching Abilities, Instruction, and Assessment: Reawakening the Sleeping Giant of Ati

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