PSY E202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Heredity, Socioeconomic Status, Heritability
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Combined measure of years of education, job prestige, and income. Poverty has a negative effect on children"s iq score. Missing a meal can effect academic achievement. Higher percentage of children living in poverty is higher among african. Americans and latinos than among euro- and asian-americans. Five times as many african-american families were poor during a six- year period than euro-american families. Among those families who weren"t poor, 50% of african-american children lived in neighborhoods with higher percentages of poor families compared to 10% of euro-american children. Higher in female-headed families that two parent families. Researchers compared iq scores of ses and ethnic groups because certain ethnicities are overrepresented at lower(aa and hispanic) and higher ses (w and asian) Led to the nature-nurture debate on iq. The average iq scores of children of different racial and ethnic groups differ. See this gap as early as age 3. Argue that genes are related to different iq scores.
