Human Intelligence and Medical Illness Assessing the Flynn Effect /

• Main Author: Steen, R. Grant. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Series: The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality,
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Neurosciences.; Psychiatry.; Social work.; Developmental psychology.; Psychology.; Developmental Psychology.; Sociology of Education.; Public Health/Gesundheitswesen.; Social Work.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0092-0

Theres 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 Language Plasticity in Humans
• Impact of Medical Illnes on Human IQ in the United States
• Impact of the Medical Illness on Human IQ Worldwide
• Medical Interventions for IQ Impairment
• Increasing IQ in the United States
• Increasing IQ and Social Justice.