PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Heritability, Twin, Barbie Liberation Organization
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Movie testing and intelligence video discovering psychology. Cognitive tests measure various aspects of your mental ability but they can be culturally constructed and those not accurately measure all people within a population as they are exposed to and are part of different cultures. Such tests that claim to be indicative of intelligence and ability are incorrect to do so. Competency tests are used in a biased ways using the results of them to say certain people are not capable of doing something. These tests don"t take into full account the different ways different people do the same things. If people are taught for test but cannot function in real life, how good is that 90% really going to be. Testing has gone as far as they can and there must be a change in assessment for more successful learning in the future. Results show increased magnitiudinal difference between males and females over time from elementary school on to adulthood.
