PSYC1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Acculturation, Flynn Effect, Social Environment
9 Aug 2018
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Intelligence tests are recalibrated when they are revised using current sample: mean is always 100. Fluid intelligence (gf): group testing: raven"s progressive matrices given the raven"s progressive test. The dutch sample: flynn looked at the proportion of people who scored 40 out of 60 as a baseline in the progressive test, by 1980 almost 80& were getting 40 out of 60 compared to. But: changes too fast, implies too much change in the past, dickens and flynn (2001) propose that interactions between biology. Are there certain factors affecting: what could drive changes in cognitive abilities, physical environment, social environment: schooling. Performance in school are insignificant an have no effect whether you perform well or not: child-rearing practices. Maybe we pay more attention to children now. Smaller families but no effect of family size. Psyc1002 lecture 5 mental abilities: social environment: visual environment complexity. We deal with a much more visual/spatial world.
