PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Nicotine, Homeostasis, Takers

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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2 views: i. q. is general capacity , do well across a variety of tasks, i. q. is made up of individual, independent abilities, smart in one area but not so much in others. Factor analysis is a statistical technique that determines whether a question of a test or across tests are related to one another. Spearman also did factor analysis and found everything is correlated, which is one factor which is referred to as g factor (one factor: ex. Nature-nurture controversy: family studies try to assess the influence of heredity on intelligence (i. q. ) by examining blood relatives and seeing how familiar their i. q. scores are, sometimes called concordant studies (correlation) If you look at a pair of relatives and study the correlation in i. q. scores. They first look at 1st degree relatives (brother and sister or parent and child) share about 50% of their genes. 2nd degree relative (aunt and niece) share 25% of their genes.