PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Frontal Lobe, Autobiographical Memory, Cardinality
24 Jun 2014
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In math, american students lag behind students in most other industrialized nations, mainly because of cultural differences in the time spent on schoolwork and homework and in parent"s attitudes towards school, effort, and ability. In general, hierarchy theories include both general intelligence and various specific skills such as verbal an spatial ability. Poor people usually don"t use preschool so their kids skills fall behind their peers rapidly. Impact of ethnicity and socioeconomic status: ethnic groups differ in their average scores on iq tests, asian ancestry tend to have the highest scores followed by those of. Iq scores remain valid predictors of school success because middle-class experience is often a prerequisite for school success. Individuals with mental retardation have iq scores of 70 or lower and problems in adaptive behaviour: organic mental retardation is due to specific biological or physical causes (eg. down.
