Methodological and Statistical Advances in the Study of Individual Differences

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Psychophysiology and the Measurement of Intelligence

   • H. J. Eysenck, P. Barrett

   Pages 1-49

3. Methodological and Statistical Techniques for the Chronometric Study of Mental Abilities

   • Arthur R. Jensen

   Pages 51-116

4. Neuropsychological Approaches to the Study of Individual Differences

   • Merrill Hiscock, Marilynn Mackay

   Pages 117-176

5. Application of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children to the Study of Individual Differences

   • Randy W. Kamphaus, Alan S. Kaufman, Cecil R. Reynolds

   Pages 177-207

6. Applying Componential Theory to the Study of Individual Differences in Cognitive Skills

   • Robert J. Sternberg

   Pages 209-239

7. New Directions in Aptitude-Treatment Interaction Research

   • Beeman N. Phillips

   Pages 241-273

8. Analysis of Interactions in Research

   • Victor L. Willson

   Pages 275-295

9. General Linear Models of Individual Differences

   • Samuel S. Hung, Herbert J. Walberg

   Pages 297-334

10. Research Methods from Applied Behavior Analysis

    • Thomas R. Kratochwill, F. Charles Mace, Stacy E. Mott

    Pages 335-392

11. Criterion-Referenced Assessment of Individual Differences

    • Ronald K. Hambleton

    Pages 393-424

12. Path-Referenced Assessment of Individual Differences

    • John R. Bergan, Clement A. Stone, Jason K. Feld

    Pages 425-466

13. Back Matter

    Pages 467-472

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Differential psychology, or the psychology of individual differences as it is better known, is perhaps the single most important basic psychological science that underlies professional practice in psychology. The recent age of behaviorism all but ignored individual differences, but in this decade the study has emerged from relative dormancy with a new vitality, fueled by new concepts, technologies, statistics, and new viewpoints on old ideas that are moving us forward. This work is intended to be a review of as well as a primer on many of these advances and new approaches to the study of individual differences. The venerable, interesting, and often controversial Eysenck opens the volume with a review of recent results and new techniques for unlocking the physiological basis of what is commonly understood to be intelligence. Eysenck and his students, in his London laboratory, have been fostering advances in this field for more than four decades. Their latest work could be the most exciting of Eysenck's illustrious, scholarly career. Eysenck's eye-opening, innovative work on the relationship between evoked potentials and performance on traditional psychometric measures, presented with a new slant, is certain to attract much attention in coming years. Eysenck and Barrett's chapter is followed by a closely related work by Arthur Jensen, who gives us a revitalizing look at the concepts of Sir Francis Galton, the founder of the psychology of individual differences.

• Francis Galton
• attention
• behavior
• cognition
• education
• intelligence
• interaction
• psychology
• science
• statistics

• Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

  Cecil R. Reynolds, Victor L. Willson

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