In the fall of 1994, the publication of Herrnstein and Murray's book The Bell Curve sparked a
new round of debate about the meaning of intelligence test scores and the nature of …

Research on parents' educational expectations and their children's academic achievement
is reviewed. Parents' expectations appear to be both a cause and an effect of academic …

First published in 1985, this book presents a'triarchic'theory of human intelligence that goes
beyond IQ in its conceptualisation and implications for assessment. The theory has three …

It [this book] can be used, we believe, in courses designed for students who have had no
prior introduction to psychology. We expect that the book will be used that way in many parts …

Lay theories-the informal, common-sense explanations people give for particular social
behaviours-are often very different from formal'scientific'explanations of what actually …

To their everyday life with children, parents bring a number of ideas about development and
about parenting. Some of these ideas are about their own children and about themselves as …

This paper conceptualizes cultural models about the developmental period of infancy. The
models are derived from existing literature and our own research. We are especially …

There are two aspects of Piaget's theory that can be at least partly distinguished:(1) the
stage theory, or the development of particular concepts through a series of hierarchical …

This innovative study argues convincingly that intelligence is essentially a plural concept,
socially and historically determined, and that it can only be fully understood when the socio …

This study investigated Taiwanese Chinese conceptions of intelligence. Two studies were
conducted. In the first study, people were asked to characterize an intelligent person. In the …