PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Intelligence Quotient, Tabula Rasa

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Erica Refling

Document Summary

The basic unit of heredity is called a gene. Nature: genes we receive from our parents. Nurture: all of the physical and social environment. Genotypes: the complete set of genes that you inherit from your parents. Phenotype: the observable expression of your genotype including both appearance and behaviour phenotype affected by environment and even before conception. Most human genetics traits do not depend on a single gene. Ideal behavioural genetic study combines twin and adoption. On average, behavioural genetics studies estimate the heritability of intelligence to be about 50% and is higher for adults than children. Gardner-theory of multiple intelligences: popular in field of education-little good research, theory based on adults with neurological insults, proposed that we have different forms of intelligence kinesthetic of bobbly intelligence. This is what iq test actually test: creative intelligence (how well one can problem solve)