PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Twin, Stereotype Threat, Heritability
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Iq: mental age / chronological age x 100. Iq test should only be valid if it actually predicts people"s future actual performance in the job being tested. However, iq tests become a self-fulfilling prophecy for some people. Know the major & o"brien slide very well for the final exam. The important thing is to remember the requirement people need to make a threat appraisals; nonvolitional and volitional responses. Results produce show that as people age, males become substantially better at math than women. However as children grow up, the trend reverses. The average white person, according to the graph, has higher iq score than black person. Maybe the test was written in a language more easily understood by a white person than a black person. Access to school, books, and how the teachers treat the students are based on stereotypes they know about the groups to which the children belong.
