L33 Psych 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Abecedarian Early Intervention Project, Antonio Salieri, Habituation
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Hereditary and environmental factors: results of twin studies, identical twins raised together correlated at . 85, mother child living together correlated at . 42, siblings raised together at . 45, the adoptive mother only has the environment going for her (. 0) A conductor is to an orchestra as a teacher is to : book, school, class, eraser. Potential solution: culture fair test (eg: raven"s matrices: anxiety about confirming a stereotype-can be alleviated by having the test giver be your race and age, test taking skills (cultural values, feeling at ease w/adult) Raven"s progressive matrices example: child is asked to find the missing puzzle piece, more difficult types of problems where you have to apply rules. Hailed as culture faire test, butdidnt really turn out that way: carolina abecedarian project, campbell and ramey (1991 & 1994) Design: experimental (phase 1=2 groups, phase 2=4 groups) and longitudinal. Method: phase 1: enrichment intervention random assignment to be in experimental or control.