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Geary, David C. – Journal of Intelligence, 2019
In a recent theoretical article, I proposed that the efficiency of mitochondrial functioning is the most fundamental biological mechanism contributing to individual differences in general intelligence ("g;" Geary, 2018). The hypothesis accommodates other contributing mechanisms at higher levels of analysis (e.g., brain networks), and is…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Ability, Brain
Lannin, John K.; Austin, Christopher; Geary, David C. – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2023
In this article, the authors describe the two interpretations of mathematical expressions, as a process and as a product. They begin with an initial discussion of Tall's (2013) interpretations of expressions and connect this to state standards. Next, they describe the different interpretations of algebraic expressions based on their work with…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Middle School Students, High School Students
Geary, David C. – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2015
The collection of studies in this special issue make an important contribution to our understanding and measurement of the core cognitive and noncognitive factors that influence children's emerging quantitative competencies. The studies also illustrate how the field has matured, from a time when the quantitative competencies of infants and young…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Statistical Analysis, Knowledge Level, Competence
Geary, David C. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
The collection of articles in this special issue and related studies over the past decade provides a fine example of the substantial progress that has been made in our understanding and remediation of mathematical learning disabilities and difficulties since 1993 (Geary, 1993). The originally proposed procedural and retrieval deficits have been…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Learning Disabilities, Short Term Memory, Neuropsychology
Geary, David C. – Educational Psychologist, 2008
Schools are a central interface between evolution and culture. They are the contexts in which children learn the evolutionarily novel abilities and knowledge needed to function as adults in modern societies. Evolutionary educational psychology is the study of how an evolved bias in children's learning and motivational systems influences their…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Learning Motivation, Evolution, Bias
Geary, David C. – Educational Psychologist, 2008
Commentators' questions about the utility of an evolutionarily informed approach to children's schooling are addressed. I begin with discussion of our knowledge of the organization of evolved folk domains and clarify my proposals as to how evolved learning and motivational biases might influence the acquisition of nonevolved academic competencies.…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Folk Culture, Evolution, Academic Ability
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Geary, David C.; Bjorklund, David F. – Child Development, 2000
Describes evolutionary developmental psychology as the study of the genetic and ecological mechanisms that govern the development of social and cognitive competencies common to all human beings and the epigenetic (gene-environment interactions) processes that adapt these competencies to local conditions. Outlines basic assumptions and domains of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Competence, Developmental Psychology, Evolution