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Genius 101:

Genius 101:. A Book Prospectus for the Springer Psychology 101 Series. Chapters. Who First Studied Genius? What Is Genius? Is Genius Generic? Is Genius Born or Made? Is Genius Mad? Is Genius Individual or Collective? Where Will Genius Science Go?. Who First Studied Genius?.

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Genius 101:

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  1. Genius 101: A Book Prospectus for the Springer Psychology 101 Series

  2. Chapters • Who First Studied Genius? • What Is Genius? • Is Genius Generic? • Is Genius Born or Made? • Is Genius Mad? • Is Genius Individual or Collective? • Where Will Genius Science Go?

  3. Who First Studied Genius? • Psychometricians: • Galton, Terman, L. Hollingworth, and J. Stanley • Historiometricians: • Quételet, Galton, Ellis, J. M. Cattell, Cox, and E. Thorndike • Psychobiographers: • S. Freud, Erickson, and H. Murray

  4. What Is Genius? • Definitions • Humanistic Conceptions • Roman Genius • Romantic Genius • Scientific Measurement • Historiometric Genius

  5.  This not That 

  6. What Is Genius? • Definitions • Humanistic Conceptions • Roman Genius • Romantic Genius • Scientific Measurement • Historiometric Genius • Psychometric Genius

  7. IQ 132 IQ 164 IQ 100 IQ 140

  8. What Is Genius? • Manifestations • Outstanding Creativity • Artistic Genius • Scientific Genius

  9. What Is Genius? • Manifestations • Outstanding Creativity • Exceptional Leadership • Military Genius • Political Genius • Business Genius • Religious Genius

  10. What Is Genius? • Manifestations • Outstanding Creativity • Exceptional Leadership • Extraordinary Performance • Chess Genius • Virtuosic Genius • Prodigious Genius • Sports Genius

  11. Is Genius Generic? • General Intelligence or Multiple Intelligences? • Unified Intellect: • Terman • Diverse Intellects

  12. Sternberg • Analytical intelligence • Creative intelligence • Practical intelligence

  13. Linguistic Logical-mathematical Spatial Bodily-kinesthetic Musical Intrapersonal Interpersonal T. S. Eliot Einstein Picasso Martha Graham Stravinsky Freud Gandhi GARDNER’S 7 INTELLIGENCES

  14. Is Genius Generic? • General Intelligence or Multiple Intelligences? • Unified Intellect: Terman • Diverse Intellects: Guilford, Sternberg, and Gardner • Hierarchical Intellect: Spearman et al.

  15. Spearman’s G (plus specific factors) G

  16. Domain-Specific Expertise or General Problem-Solving Techniques? • Algorithms versus Heuristics • Expert Systems versus Discovery Programs • Knowledge-Based versus Brute-Force Chess Programs • Resolution: Darwinian Creativity • The BVSR Model • Intra- and Inter-Domain Application

  17. Is Genius Born or Made? • Nature Position • Galton’s (1869) Hereditary Genius • Nurture Position • Candolle’s (1873) Histoire des sciences et des savants depuis deux siècles • Galton’s (1874) English men of science: Their nature and nurture. • Watson’s Conditioning to Ericsson’s Deliberate Practice

  18. Is Genius Born or Made? • Nature Position • Nurture Position • Modern Position • Environmental effects • Shared environment (e.g., SEC) • Nonshared environment (e.g., birth order) • Genetic effects • Additive (gene-environment interactions) • Multiplicative (emergenesis)

  19. Is Genius Mad? • Empirical Findings • Historiometric Results

  20. Is Genius Mad? • Empirical Findings • Historiometric Results • Psychiatric Results • Incidence rates and intensity levels • Family pedigrees • Psychometric Results

  21. Is Genius Mad? • Empirical Findings • Historiometric Results • Psychiatric Results • Psychometric Results • Theoretical Interpretations • Shared Causes • Directional Causality • M > G • G > M

  22. Is Genius Individual or Collective? • Intellectual Stimulation • Interpersonal Relationships • Collaborative Groups • Disciplinary Context • Sociocultural Zeitgeist

  23. Where Will Genius Science Go? • Social Psychology: Gender and Ethnicity • Developmental Psychology: Age and Achievement • Educational Psychology: Giftedness and Talent • Differential Psychology: Intelligence and Personality • Cognitive Psychology: Brain and Mind

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