PSY 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 32: White Matter, Malnutrition, Heritability
13 Dec 2018
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Chapter 32: genetic and environmental influences on intelligence. Twin and adoption studies: things to consider: as similar as those of the same person taking the same test twice. It can retard normal brain development: schooling and intelligence, school is one intervention that pays intelligence score dividends, schooling and intelligence interact and both enhance later income, studies recommend that having a head start increases school readiness. 4. and provides a boost to later health and high school completion rate. Intelligence scores also rise with nutritional supplements to pregnant moms and newborns: study motivation and study skills rivaled aptitude and previous grades as predictors of academic achievement. Motivation can even affect intelligence test performance: real world studies confirm: ability + opportunity + motivation = success. Group differences in intelligence test scores: gender similarities and differences. In different eras, different ethnic groups have experienced golden ages(period of remarkable achievement) The debate over racial differences in intelligence divides into three:
