The Intelligent Brain
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
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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