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Article Review

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Article Review

Human intelligence is a significant psychological construct that provides extensive

implications availing insights into diverse fields such as neurology, sociology, and international

development. According to the article, IQ can help predict the outcomes of life in health, work,

socioeconomic status, and education despite psychology students being open to human

intelligence in inadequate ways. The article aims to assess what the students of psychology learn

concerning intelligence and therefore analyzed the information of the 29 most common

introductory books. The authors performed the analysis of the textbooks primarily to study the

most often taught topics concerning human intellect, the accurateness of information concerning

human intellect, and the availability of rational fallacies regarding intellect study.

The authors sampled the most widespread preparatory textbooks founded on the new

sales ranking of course books on Amazon. When two versions of a given textbook were

available, the authors chose the original versions instead of the abridged version. The article

found out that 79.3 percent of the textbooks had incorrect proclamations while 79.3 percent had

rational fallacies within their segments regarding intelligence. Moreover, the authors also found

that the most regularly taught subjects included IQ (93.1% of textbooks), Gardner's numerous

intelligences (93.1% of books), spearman's g (93.1% of books), Stemberg's triarchic model

(89.7%) and measurement of intellect (82.8%). However, modern intelligence was discussed

only at 24.1 percent of the books, and only a single book discoursing Carroll's three stratum

theory while no book discussed the intelligence bifactor models. Therefore, the authors conclude

that majority of the introductory psychology scholars are presented with incorrect information

and therefore may develop mistaken impressions concerning nonmainstream theories such as

Gardner's theories. According to the authors, these revelations presents significant implications
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for authors of the undergraduate curriculum. Nonetheless, the study presents limitations such as

inherent subjectivity and standards of accuracy that are necessary for the process of data

collection.

From the article, I have learned of the primary topics that psychology students learn and

inaccuracies and fallacies in the textbooks used. Most importantly, the authors stress the

implications these revelations have on the textbook authors and producers. Besides, while these

findings may be accurate, I believe that peer-reviewing books and journals published on the

subject of intelligence can help remove inaccuracies and fallacies. Furthermore, the findings will

be helpful as it calls for relooking at the theories learned and the fallacies present to prevent

practical inconveniences in life and clinical applications. Also, the results will help to understand

and evaluate textbooks for other lessons of inconsistencies and fallacies to ensure productive

learning.
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References

What Do Undergraduates Learn About Human Intelligence? An Analysis of Introductory

Psychology Textbooks Warne, R. T., Astle, M. C., & Hill, J. C. (2018). What do

undergraduates learn about human intelligence? An analysis of introductory psychology

textbooks. Archives of Scientific Psychology, 6(1), 32-

50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/arc0000038