ABSTRACT
The chapters in these volumes attest to a belief among many researchers that psychology is about to make significant advances in finding out how to make people more intelligent. This optimism is the result of a new set of shared assumptions about the nature of intelligence. It is assumed that intelligence consists of components, which can be described in terms of human information processing as studied by modem cognitive psychology. The modem theory of information processing seeks to characterize mental processes in terms of rules for cause and effect relations between mental states. It thus promises to remedy the deficiencies of the psychometric approach to the structure of intelligence (summarized by Gould, 1981, Chapter 6; Sternberg, 1977).
