PSYO 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Twin, Heritability, Y Chromosome
17 Jan 2018
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Mayer a(cid:374)d salo(cid:448)ey"s emotional intelligence: ability to reason about emotions and use emotions to enhance reasoning, emotionally intelligent people show less neural activity when solving emotional problems than emotionally unintelligent people. Identical (monozygotic): splitting of a single egg that was fertilized by a single sperm (100% of genes) Intelligence changes over time and over generations: age related declines are more evident in some areas than others, flynn effect: average iq is 30 points higher today than a century ago. Nutrition, medical care, stress toxins, intellectual stimulation: education, education is correlated strongly with intelligence. Go to school, stay in school, become educated of the world. Individual differences in intelligence: average iq is 100; 68% fall between 85-115. Absolutely! (ex. nutrition, ses, exposure, access to research) Sample questions: the two-factor theory suggest that intelligence is a combination of general ability and: specific abilities. Development psychology: study of continuity and change across the life span, from conception/birth to childhood to adolescence to adulthood.
