Outline of human intelligence

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to human intelligence:

Human intelligence is, in the human species, the mental capacities to learn, understand, and reason, including the capacities to comprehend ideas, plan, solve problems, and use language to communicate.

Traits and aspects

In groups

• Collective intelligence
• Collective wisdom
• Common sense

In individuals

Augmented with technology

• Humanistic intelligence

Capacities

Cognition and mental processing

Types of people, by intelligence

High

• Child prodigy
  • List of child prodigies
• Genius
• Polymath

Low

• Intellectual disability

Models and theories

• Cattell–Horn–Carroll theory
• Fluid and crystallized intelligence
• General factor of intelligence
• Theory of multiple intelligences
• Triarchic theory of intelligence
• PASS theory of intelligence
• Parieto-frontal integration theory
• Vernon's verbal-perceptual model
• g-VPR model

Related factors

• Impact of health on intelligence
• Environment and intelligence
• Height and intelligence
• Neurological factors upon intelligence
• Race and intelligence
• Nations and intelligence
• Sex differences in intelligence
• Religiosity and intelligence
• Intelligence and personality

Fields that study human intelligence

• Cognitive epidemiology
• Evolution of human intelligence
• Heritability of IQ
• Mental chronometry
• Intelligence and public policy
• Behavioural genetics
• Human behavior genetics

Psychometrics: measurement

• Psychometrics
  • Flynn effect
  • Educational quotient
  • g factor
  • Heritability of IQ
  • Intelligence quotient
    • Ammons Quick Test
    • Army General Classification Test
    • Block design test
    • Bracken School Readiness Assessment
    • Cattell Culture Fair III
    • Cognitive Abilities Test
    • Differential Ability Scales
    • Figure Reasoning Test
    • Intelligence quotient
    • Jensen box
    • Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children
    • Knox Cubes
    • Kohs block design test
    • Leiter International Performance Scale
    • Lothian birth-cohort studies
    • Miller Analogies Test
    • NNAT
    • Otis–Lennon School Ability Test
    • Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
    • Porteus Maze Test
    • Raven's Progressive Matrices
    • Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales
    • Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales
    • Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
    • Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
    • Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence
    • Wonderlic Test
    • Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities
  • Standardized testing

History

• Evolution of human intelligence
• History of the race and intelligence controversy

Organizations

• High IQ societies
  • Intertel
  • Mega Society
  • Mensa International
  • Prometheus Society
  • Triple Nine Society

Publications

• Intelligence (journal)

Scholars and researchers

See also

Further reading

• Mackintosh, N. J. (2011). IQ and Human Intelligence (second ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-958559-5. The second edition of a leading textbook on human intelligence, used in highly selective universities throughout the English-speaking world, with extensive references to research literature.
• Hunt, Earl (2011). Human Intelligence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-70781-7. First edition of a comprehensive textbook by a veteran scholar of human intelligence.
• Nisbett, Richard E.; Aronson, Joshua; Blair, Clancy; Dickens, William; Flynn, James; Halpern, Diane F.; Turkheimer, Eric (2012). "Intelligence: new findings and theoretical developments" (PDF). American Psychologist. 67 (2): 130–159. doi:10.1037/a0026699. ISSN 0003-066X. PMID 22233090. Retrieved 22 July 2013. Major review article in a flagship publication of the American Psychological Association, a thorough review of current research.
  • "The latest on intelligence". Daniel Willingham--Science & Education. 2012-05-10.
• Sternberg, Robert J.; Kaufman, Scott Barry, eds. (2011). The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521739115. Authoritative handbook for graduate students and practitioners, with chapters by a variety of authors on most aspects of human intelligence.

External links

• APA Task Force Examines the Knowns and Unknowns of Intelligence - American Psychologist, February 1996
• The cognitive-psychology approach vs. psychometric approach to intelligence - American Scientist magazine
• History of Influences in the Development of Intelligence Theory and Testing - Developed by Jonathan Plucker at Indiana University

Scholarly journals and societies

• Intelligence (journal homepage)
• International Society for Intelligence Research (homepage)

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