Friday, October 26, 2007
10:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
Harper 140
The University of Chicago | 1116 East 59th Street
Lecture: Intelligence: Four Paradoxes Resolved
James R. Flynn
Emeritus Professor, University of Otago, New Zealand
Over the past century there have been massive increases in IQ test scores. Many psychologists have struggled to understand the implications of these IQ gains. Do they mean that each generation is more intelligent than the last? Do they suggest how each of us can enhance our own intelligence?
These gains were called the "Flynn effect" to recognize the central role played by James R. Flynn in measuring them.
In this lecture based on his current book What is Intelligence? Professor Flynn will seek to resolve the four paradoxes that have plagued the theory of intelligence.
