- Oxford Library of Psychology
- The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Developmental Psychology: A New Synthesis
- History of Research in Developmental Psychology
- Research Design and Methods: Toward a Cumulative Developmental Science
- Biological Development: Theoretical Approaches, Techniques, and Key Findings
- Behavioral Genetics, Genetics, and Epigenetics
- Postnatal Brain Development
- Sex and Sex Differences
- Sensitive Periods in Visual Development
- Perceptual–Motor Relations in Obvious and Nonobvious Domains: A History and Review
- Visual Development
- Auditory and Musical Development
- Development of Face-Processing Ability in Childhood
- Object Perception
- The Development of Reaching Actions
- The Road to Walking: What Learning to Walk Tells Us About Development
- Cognitive Development: An Overview
- Computational Models in Developmental Psychology
- Memory
- Concepts in Development
- Spatial Development
- Categorization
- Causality
- Imitation: Social, Cognitive, and Theoretical Perspectives
- Development of Attention Networks
- Executive Function
- Reasoning
- The History of Intelligence: New Spectacles for Developmental Psychology
- Imagination
- Moral Development: The Social Domain Theory View
- From Coo to Code: A Brief Story of Language Development
- Speech Perception in Infancy: A Foundation for Language Acquisition
- Syntax Acquisition
- Gesture’s Role in Learning and Development
- Symbols and Symbolic Thought
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
The psychometric and developmental traditions obscure what they have in common: understanding human intelligence in all of its manifestations. Each tradition tends to take its theoretical construct as universally relevant. The cognitive history of the twentieth century shows huge IQ gains from one generation to another. Those who follow Spearman discount IQ gains unless they are factor invariant across generations—for example, manifest the enhancement of g. The developmental tradition can accommodate altered cognition over time because it emphasizes mutual interaction between characteristics of persons and the environments in which they are situated. We use IQ gains to reconstruct the history of cognitive skills; and introduce concepts like “habits of mind” and “the mind as a muscle” and “cognitive priorities” to unify history, developmental psychology, and psychometrics. We draw implications for education and interventions, maximizing cognitive ability throughout life, genes and environment, and group differences.
Keywords: i ntelligence, secular IQ gains, developmental psychology, Piaget, psychometrics, Spearman, nature/nurture, interventions, education, group differences
James R. Flynn, University of Otago, New Zealand
Clancy Blair, Department of Applied Psychology, New York University
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Developmental Psychology: A New Synthesis
- History of Research in Developmental Psychology
- Research Design and Methods: Toward a Cumulative Developmental Science
- Biological Development: Theoretical Approaches, Techniques, and Key Findings
- Behavioral Genetics, Genetics, and Epigenetics
- Postnatal Brain Development
- Sex and Sex Differences
- Sensitive Periods in Visual Development
- Perceptual–Motor Relations in Obvious and Nonobvious Domains: A History and Review
- Visual Development
- Auditory and Musical Development
- Development of Face-Processing Ability in Childhood
- Object Perception
- The Development of Reaching Actions
- The Road to Walking: What Learning to Walk Tells Us About Development
- Cognitive Development: An Overview
- Computational Models in Developmental Psychology
- Memory
- Concepts in Development
- Spatial Development
- Categorization
- Causality
- Imitation: Social, Cognitive, and Theoretical Perspectives
- Development of Attention Networks
- Executive Function
- Reasoning
- The History of Intelligence: New Spectacles for Developmental Psychology
- Imagination
- Moral Development: The Social Domain Theory View
- From Coo to Code: A Brief Story of Language Development
- Speech Perception in Infancy: A Foundation for Language Acquisition
- Syntax Acquisition
- Gesture’s Role in Learning and Development
- Symbols and Symbolic Thought
- Index
