Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence
Chapter One
IQ Tests: Their History,
Use, Validity, and
Intelligent Interpretation
The field of intelligence, particularly of adolescent
and adult mental development, has dominated
the psychological literature for decades,
and now encompasses a diversity of domains
within cognitive psychology, clinical psychology,
psychobiology, behavioral genetics, education,
school psychology, sociology, neuropsychology,
and everyday life. Excellent handbooks are available
with chapters written by experts in many aspects
of intellectual theory, measurement, and
development (e.g., Flanagan, Genshaft, & Harrison,
1997; Groth-Marnat, 2000), and even these
texts cover only a portion of the territory and
quickly become outdated. Consequently, in writing
this text on the assessment of adolescent and
adult intelligence, we have had to make several
decisions about which areas to include and how
thoroughly to cover each topic.
First, this book focuses on the clinical assessment
of intelligence, and every ... read full excerpt from Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence, 3rd Edition ebook
