Handbook of Intelligence

Preface.- SECTION 1. BACKGROUND.- The Roots of Human Intelligence: What Were We Before We Were Intelligent?.- Intelligence in Non primates.- Intelligence in Primates.- The Evolution of Language.- Intelligence in Humans.- The Origins of Intelligence as a Conceptual Construct:  Plato, Pascal and Philosophy.- Modern Foundation:  Darwin, Charcot and Dalton.- SECTION 2. THEORIES OF INTELLIGENCE.- Intelligence Defined:  James, Wundt, Cattell, Thorndike and Yerkes.- Alfred Binet and the Children of Paris.- David Wechsler and the Soldiers of America.- Alan Kaufman and Intelligence Redefined as Cognitive Processing.- A.R. Luria and Intelligence Redefined as a Neuropsychological Construct.- Daniel Sternberg and Multiple Intelligences in the New Age of Thinking.- Daniel Goleman and Emotional Intelligence and Behavior.- Carol Dweck and Intelligence as a Malleable Construct.- SECTION  3. ASSESSMENT OF INTELLIGENCE.- The Connection Between Intelligence Tests and Theory of Intelligence.- Assessing Intellectual Knowledge.- Assessing Intellectual Ability.

Sam Goldstein, Ph.D. is a psychologist with areas of study in school psychology, child development, and neuropsychology. He is licensed as a psychologist and certified as a developmental disabilities evaluator in the State of Utah. Dr. Goldstein is a Fellow in the National Academy of Neuropsychology and American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine. He is a Board Certified Pediatric Neuropsychologist. Dr. Goldstein is an Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine. Since 1980, Dr. Goldstein has worked in a private practice setting as the Director of a multidisciplinary team, providing evaluation, case management, and treatment services for children and adults with histories of neurological disease and trauma, autism, learning disability, adjustment difficulties, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Dr. Goldstein is on staff at the University Neuropsychiatric Institute. He has served as a member of the Children's Hospital Craniofacial Team. He has also been a member of the Developmental Disabilities Clinic in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Utah Medical School. Dr. Goldstein has authored, coauthored, or edited 50 clinical and trade publications, including 18 textbooks dealing with managing children's behavior in the classroom, genetics, autism, attention disorders, resilience, and adult learning disabilities. With Barbara Ingersoll, Ph.D., he has coauthored texts dealing with controversial treatments for children's learning and attention problems and childhood depression. With Anne Teeter Ellison, he has authored Clinician's Guide to Adult ADHD: Assessment and Intervention. With Nancy Mather, Ph.D., he has completed three texts for teachers and parents concerning behavioral and educational issues. With Michael Goldstein, M.D., he has completed two texts on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. He has edited three texts with Cecil Reynolds, Ph.D., on neurodevelopmental and

"I applaud the present volume for its use of evolutionary theory not simply to represent and exemplify a subfield of psychology but rather to provide a foundational meta-theoretical framework that integrates the entire field of psychology in the same way it has for the field of biology. ... an essential textbook and/or resource not only for undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in all subfields of psychology but also for professionals engaged in intelligence assessment and evaluation." (Jack Demick, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 60 (21), May, 2015)