Human Intelligence and Medical Illness Assessing the Flynn Effect /

• Main Author: Steen, R. Grant (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Series: The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality,
• Subjects: Psychology.; Neurosciences.; Public health.; Psychiatry.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Developmental psychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.; Public Health.; Developmental Psychology.; Sociology of Education.

There’s little doubt that people are growing smarter. This effect is so strong that IQ tests must be renormed periodically to prevent classifying an overabundance of people as geniuses. The question is why is this collective rise in IQ – known as the Flynn effect –occurring? Possible theories to exp...

Table of Contents:

• Are People Getting Smarter?
• Human IQ and Increasing Intelligence
• Evolution and Increasing Intelligence
• Brain Development and Increasing Intelligence
• Environment and Increasing Intelligence
• Evidence of Physical Plasticity in Humans
• Evidence of Mental Plasticity in Humans
• Evidence of Cognitive Plasticity in Humans
• Impact of Medical Conditions on Human IQ in the United States
• Impact of Medical Conditions on Human IQ Worldwide
• Medical Interventions for Cognitive Impairment
• Increasing IQ in the United States
• Increasing IQ and Social Justice.