On this page you’ll find a number of resources for understanding intelligence, including ways of defining intelligence, testing, and the role of genes and environment in shaping intelligence. If I’ve missed a good resource, please share it in the comments section!
General Resources
Intelligence Chapter – Boundless
Master Introductory Psychology Volume 3 (Amazon link)
General Video Resources
Specific Concepts
- Intelligence Quotient – Wikipedia page
- Savant Syndrome – Wikipedia page
- The Real Rain Man, Kim Peek – Fran & Kim Peek (Amazon link)
- Derek Paravicini
- Stephen Wiltshire
- The Acquired Savant – Darold Treffert
- Islands of Genius: The Bountiful Mind of the Autistic, Acquired, and Sudden Savant – Darold Treffert (Amazon link)
- Do Our Brains Have Extraordinary Untapped Powers? (Guardian)
- Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel – Jason Padgett (Amazon link)
- Intellectual Giftedness – Wikipedia page
- Why Are Some People So Smart? (Wired)
- Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect (The New Yorker)
- Heritability – Wikipedia page
- Heritability (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Heritability of IQ – Wikipedia page
- Understanding Heritability (AP Central)
- Normal Distribution for IQ scores
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University of Minnesota Libraries – http://open.lib.umn.edu/intropsyc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/02/d73ccd6f6f078851c839adbfac443d77.jpg
- Lewis Terman – Wikipedia page
- Alfred Binet – Wikipedia page
- Théodore Simon – Wikipedia page
- Francis Galton – Wikipedia page
- Standards, Grades, and Tests Are Wildly Outdated (NPR)
- Raymond Cattell – Wikipedia page
- Emotional Intelligence – Wikipedia page
- Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking That IQ Tests Miss (Scientific American)
- Robert Sternberg – Wikipedia page
- Howard Gardner – Wikipedia page
- Louis Leon Thurstone – Wikipedia page
- Factor analysis – Wikipedia page
- Psychometrics – Wikipedia page
- Intellectual Disability
- Down Syndrome – Wikipedia page
- Fragile X Syndrome – Wikipedia page
- Williams Syndrome – Wikipedia page
- An Introduction to Williams Syndrome (Youtube)
- Phenylketonuria (PKU) – Wikipedia page
- Robert Sapolsky on PKU and heritability
- Eugenics – Wikipedia page
- Gender gaps
- Sex Differences in Intelligence – Wikipedia page
- The Science of Sex Differences in Science and Mathematics – Halpern, D. et al, 2007
- Race and IQ
- None of the Above: What IQ Doesn’t Tell You About Race (New Yorker)
- The Bell Curve – Wikipedia page
- Mainstream Science on Intelligence – Gottfredson et al, 1997
- Race and Intelligence – Wikipedia page
- Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns – Neisser et al 1996
- Intelligence, race, and genetics – Sternberg, Grigorenko, & Kidd, 2005
- Environment and IQ
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy – Wikipedia page
- Stereotype Threat – Wikipedia page
- Whistling Vivaldi – Claude Steele (Amazon link)
- Fixed vs. Growth Mindset – Wikipedia page
- Transcranial Stimulation – Wikipedia page
- Savant-like Skills in Normal People by Suppressing the Left Fronto-Temporal Lobe (Snyder et al, 2003)
- Savant-like Numerosity Skills in Normal People by Magnetic Pulses (Snyder et al, 2006)
- Nootropic – Wikipedia page
- Brain Training
- Dual-n-Back Task at soakyourhead.com
- Can You Make Yourself Smarter? (NYT)
- Smarter – Dan Hurley (Amazon link)
- Mind the Gap: What Lumosity Promised vs. What it Could Prove (Federal Trade Commission)
- FTC’s Lumosity Penalty Doesn’t End Brain Training Debate (NYT)
