PSYCH 350 Lecture Notes - Heredity, Early Head Start, Rote Learning
15 Mar 2013
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May be an indirect effect, iq-years / school- job. Verbal fluency, ability to solve math problems and rote memory emphasized on the iq test and in school. The content of traditional tests is unfamiliar to children from some social or cultural backgrounds. Strong issues of test bias when considering if there are group differences in. The more culturally fair (unbiased) tests are the less likely that group differences would emerge. Flynn effect: (intelligence test performance has been rising). James flynn found that iq was rising at an average rate of about three iq points per decade. As a result, new norms continue to be used to rescale iq tests to "100" The evidence for a rise in iq comes from: adoption studies, nutrition studies, educational intervention studies. No single factor seems to have a large influence on iq, it"s a combination of varying factors.
