PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Seeed, Spatial Ability, Cerebral Cortex
20 Oct 2016
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If the environment were found to greater impact intelligence: kids from disadvantaged environments would be expected to live disadvantaged lives and display lower intelligence, but this could be changed. Nature extremists: nazis thought that arian race was superior: failed to be supported, hitler exterminated less intelligent races and encouraged breeding among arians. If intelligence is mostly inherited, then not everyone is born with the same potential (in the extreme) environmental strategies to improve intelligence of certain groups and individuals is therefore futile (racism) If intelligence is mostly the result of environmental experience, then everyone is born with the same potential and efforts should be made to ensure everyone has access to fruitful environments. Today, some geneticists are trying to engineer intelligent babies. Parents treat identical twins more alike than fraternal twins. Identical twins who are raised in the same family is like testing the same person twice.
