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The Intelligent Brain

Offered By: The Great Courses Plus

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Intelligence Courses Genetics Courses Creativity Courses Brain Imaging Courses

Course Description

Overview

Plunge into a myriad of thought-provoking issues with a pioneer professor and researcher in psychology to better understand what intelligence is and how it works.

Syllabus

  • By This Professor
  • 01: What Is Intelligence?
  • 02: Assessing Intelligence
  • 03: General Intelligence in Everyday Life
  • 04: To g or Not to g-Is That the Question?
  • 05: Intelligence and Genius over the Life Span
  • 06: Early Childhood Experience and Intelligence
  • 07: Genes and Intelligence
  • 08: Can We See Intelligence in the Brain?
  • 09: What Brain Imaging Reveals about Intelligence
  • 10: Intelligence and the Brains of Children
  • 11: Sex and Intelligence
  • 12: Race and Intelligence
  • 13: Are We Really Getting Smarter?
  • 14: The Mind in Milliseconds
  • 15: Creativity and Intelligence
  • 16: Can Intelligence Be Enhanced?
  • 17: Intelligence, Child Rearing, and Education
  • 18: The IQ Pill

Taught by

Richard J. Haier

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