Scientific Inquiry Into Human Potential

Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Across Disciplines

• Author(s): David Yun Dai, Robert J. Sternberg,
• Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Pages: 284
• ISBN_10: 0367261359
  ISBN_13: 9780367261351
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / General , Education / Aims & Objectives , Education / Educational Psychology , Education / Schools / Levels / Higher , Education / History , Education / Special Education / Gifted , Education / Teaching / General , Education / Research , Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects , Psychology / General , Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition , Psychology / Research & Methodology , Psychology / Social Psychology , Psychology / Creative Ability , Psychology / Developmental / General , Psychology / Movements / General ,

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Scientific Inquiry into Human Potential explores the intellectual legacy and contemporary understanding of scientific research on human intelligence, performance, and productivity. Across nineteen chapters, some of the most eminent scholars of learning and psychology recount how they originated, distinguished, measured, challenged, and adapted their theories on the nature and nurture of human potential over decades of scientific research. These accessible, autobiographical accounts cover a spectrum of issues, from the biological underpinnings and developmental nature of human potential to the roles of community, social interaction, and systematic individual differences in cognitive and motivational functioning. Researchers, instructors, and graduate students of education, psychology, sociology, and biology will find this book not only historically informative but inspiring to their own ongoing research journeys, as well.