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11- Cognitive Development Flashcards

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What is intelligence

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The capacity of a person to understand the world and meet its demands

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What intelligence is not

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  • Learning
  • General knowledge
  • Practical ability
  • Creativity
  • Common sense
  • Success
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Spearman 1904

General intelligence

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Collected test score data from English schools
Evidence of positive correlations across abilities
Created factor analysis to analyse this covariance
Majority of variance due to general cognitive ability

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Fluid intelligence

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Basic reasoning ability that can be applied to a wide range of problems

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Crystallised intelligence

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Factual knowledge about the world

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Three Stratum Theory

Carroll 1993

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  • Stratum 1 narrow abilities
  • Stratum 2 broad abilities
  • Stratum 3 general cognitive ability
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Solution to measuring intelligence

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Observe an individual’s actions on tasks that require aspects of intelligence

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Measuring intelligence

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Verbal comprehension

Intelligence tests for different ages

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IQ practical application

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Created to identify children that are not likely to benefit from mainstream education

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IQ tests predictability

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IQ scores match, to a degree, whatever it is that people mean when they use the word ‘intelligent’ in ordinary language
IQ scores show impressive continuity from age 5 onward
IQ scores are great predictors of both academic and occupational attainment (external validity)

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IQ Tests internal validity

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IQ tests are arguably culturally biased Heavily reliant on verbal ability
- Questions may assume cultural knowledge
- Score higher with crystalized intelligence
IQ tests rely on representative population testing but populations change over time

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IQ tests ethical issues

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  • Judgements made on the basis of IQ scores often lead to BIG environmental changes
  • Knowledge of one’s IQ score can impact self-concept and educational aspirations
  • Is there any benefit in knowing your IQ score? - Do we really need a cut-off IQ score to classify someone as ‘gifted’?
  • Group differences in IQ scores (e.g. race differences) readily lead to prejudice and stereotype threat leads to poor academic performance (Steele, 1997)
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Individual differences compared to cultural differences

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Individual differences are larger as compared with differences between countries

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Differences between schools accounts for

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10% of variance

90% is within schools

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Heritability of IQ

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  • Varies from 40% to 80% across dozens of family studies
  • Average MZ correlation is .86
  • Average DZ correlation is .60
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TEDS

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Twins Early Development Study

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Heritability in intelligence

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Literacy and numeracy are more heritable than intelligence in primary school

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Heritability of IQ throughout life

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Heritability of IQ increases from 40% in childhood to 80% in later adulthood

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Passive gene environment correlation

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The association between genotype a child inherits from their parents and the environment in which the child is raised

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Evocative gene environment correlation

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When as individuals heritable behaviour evokes an environmental response

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Active gene environment correlation

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When an individual possesses a heritable inclination to select environmental exposure

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Comorbidity between reading and maths learning disability

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67% of the variance in individuals who have comorbid issues with reading and maths is explained by genetic influence

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Polygenic trait model

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-Cognitive traits are controlled by more than one genetic variant -Each genetic variant is additive to the others
-The hallmark of polygenic traits:
A bell curve distribution
A continuous distribution

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Positive sibling ties can facilitate

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Cognitive development

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Parenting and intellectual environment influenced by

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Genetic factors

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Home correlates __ with IQ scores

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Positively

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Within family variations have a

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Greater impact than between family variations

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Poverty on children’s IQ

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Negative effects on IQ
10 to 15 points below middle class children
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The Flynn effect

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A rise of 3 points per 10 years in IQ scores across a population

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