This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...any evidence of the same person exhibiting the same characteristics generally, that is to say, under varied conditions. Their observations were confined to descriptive analysis and did not touch functional dependence. For example, a person is observed to remember well certain things seen a long time ago, and is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...any evidence of the same person exhibiting the same characteristics generally, that is to say, under varied conditions. Their observations were confined to descriptive analysis and did not touch functional dependence. For example, a person is observed to remember well certain things seen a long time ago, and is thereupon declared to have a retentive memory. But this mode of expression makes the quite unwarranted implication that he could also retain well other experiences such as nonsensesyllables or the words of a foreign language. For descriptive purposes it is right to include all these processes under the general name of memory but by this we do not prove the one ability to accompany the other, that is to say, to have functional generality. Quite similar illegitimate generalisations have always been made with regard to character also, e.g. the qualities 'kindness' and 'conscientiousness' are both called moral qualities and the word moral is forthwith used in such a way as to imply a functional connection between them. Such verbal generalisations have always been serious pitfalls in the path of science, they are 'idola fori' which "as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily intangle and pervert the judgment." But if we reject these unwarranted generalities, we are faced by the fact that really to demonstrate functional generalities is an extremely difficult task. It requires elaborate methods such as were formerly unknown and unsuspected. But in the development of the theory of 'g' the required methods have at last been devised. Here it is shown that the factor 'g' is functionally operative in producing correlation between mental performances, this correlation being always partly due to the 'g' and partl...
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Add this copy of Character and Intelligence: an Attempt at an Exact to cart. $54.95, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Palala Press.
Add this copy of Character and Intelligence; an Attempt at an Exact to cart. $54.95, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Palala Press.