PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Meritocracy
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Individualistic: cultures include a variety of practices and customs that encourage individuals to place their own personal goals ahead of those of the collective and to consider how they are distinct from others. Collectivistic: include many cultural practices, institutions, and customs that encourage individuals to place relatively more emphasis on collective goals specifically, the goals of one"s in-groups. Flynn effect: a trend which on average, across all cultures for which there is adequate longitudinal data, people in the current generation have higher iq scores than those from earlier generations. The iq test that shows the largest increase across time is the raven"s matrices, which was originally developed as a culture-free measure of iq, as it doesn"t require any specific cultural knowledge or language skills. Performance on the raven"s matrices involves basic problem-solving skills, an area where people seem to be making the most improvement, and is the purest measure of intelligence.
