PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Twin, Prenatal Development, Zygote

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 001
• Professor: del rio

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Recognize emotions in faces, music, and stories. Predict emotions, how they change and blend. Utilize emotions to adapt or be creative. This may be important because we are a highly social species. Monozygotic twins their iq scores are highly correlated. In the same household correlation value is almost . 9. Schooling effects schooling is an experience that pays dividends, which is reflected in intelligence scores. Have greater stressors in life, and poor nutrition. Men tend to have a small advantage on visuospatial tasks. Greater difference among men than among men and women. Women have a small advantage in some verbal tasks. Greater difference among women than among men and women. Men and women do not differ in overall iq. These differences are certainly fostered by the cultural environment. Several studies have documented a 10- to 15- point difference between the average scores of american whites and blacks. This difference does not seem to attribute to genetic factors.