HLTC23H3 Chapter Notes -Intelligence Quotient, Afrocentrism, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Understanding the roles of income, risk and culture: Infants and young children in poverty are exposed to multiple ecological stressors: Greater psychological distress among adult caregivers: measurement equivalence, model equivalence. Raver argues that the literature on the normative development of self-regulation can be viewed from the perspectives of: Measurement equivalence establishes whether a given set of assessments tap a latent construct such as emotion self-regulation similarly across racially, ethnically or socioeconomically diverse groups so that meaningful inferences can be drawn from the data. A good example of a controversy in measurement equivalence is the measurement of iq. In the 70s and to this day, many researchers suggest that traditional iq measures are biased against anyone who is not: western, white, middle class, used to taking tests. One author went so far as to suggest that because african children did poorly on western iq tests, scoring in the mid-70s on average, they were genetically inferior to middle class anglo kids.
