PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Stereotype Threat, Meta-Analysis, Medical Test
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Group difference in iq as product of prejudice - overview. Situational: not about the environment per say but what would happen in any situation (testing, classroom) Cognitive test: various aspects of your mental ability. Binet"s test: gave people mental ages despite chronological age. The women performed worse when a man was in the room (math test) Saying a test is not capable of discrimination as a result woman"s threat was removed. Graph showed performance increase for males, significant from high school, college, to adulthood. High correlation between parent iq and child iq. Fraternal twins iq is similar to siblings. Identical twins iq is highly related, more than fraternals. Iq of identical twins reared apart is highly related. Iq of adopted is identical to bio/ than the adopted mother. Iq of identical twins reared is less than twins reared together. Within-group differences has a genetic component, perhaps between-group difference has genetic component too.
