Intelligence: the integral factor for the Asian-Pacific region (Spring)

Dear students,

My name is Vladimir Shibaev and my major topic is macropsychology of intelligent. Why it can be interesting for you? Well, let’s start from the beginning — what is an intelligence? One of the most using and in the same time — one of the most contradictory term in modern times. What is the “Intelligence” actually? How to measure it? How to prove that the measures of intelligence are correct and valid? Is this depends on the culture, or on the genes? And how this estimation can have an impact not only to our own personal life, but even to the whole Asian-Pacific region? This course was developed by using the newest data from macropsychology and intelligence research, but also includes a lot of evidences from history, cultural anthropology, economics and demography to receive entire comprehension of regional process ongoing in Asian-Pacific region not only nowadays, but also in the past, and possibly in the future. And in the post-industrial civilization, where the intellectual product can raise national economics and standard of living, we need to know, how intelligence does work, and how we can direct this work for our own benefits.

• Psychometry skill
• Intelligence diagnostic skill
• The skill of organizing a psychometric study
• Making prognostic dynamic models of intelligence and personality
• Working with statistics data
• Collection and preparation of statistical information

After completion, students should be able to: acquaintance with new concepts and terms (enrichment of students' conceptual apparatus), the formation of diagnostic skills (e.g., the ability to determine the coefficient of human intelligence), consolidation of knowledge of the structure of the higher cognitive ability of man, the history of the formation of the idea of intelligence, modern concepts of psychometric intelligence. Also, after this course students start to understand macropsychological links between intelligence and its socio-economical, demographical and political outcomes in Asian-Pacific region.

• Get a complete picture of the human intellect, its evolution, present and future; - Get the skill of psychometric intelligence testing
• Find out what intelligence depends on, the features of its distribution in various socio-demographic groups and the reasons for the differences
• Understand why the study of intelligence is important not only in psychology, but also in related fields such as economics and political studies

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