Environmental Factors Inc Culture On Intelligence Test Performance

Question 1

AO1

FAS 
Nutrition - Beaton and Roberts 
The Flynn Effect
Enrichment Programmes 
Culture

Answer 1

FAS - can lead to low birth weight, mild brain damage and reduced IQ
Nutrition - Beaton and Roberts - children 8 month dietary supplement - showed increase of 9 in IQ scores, children given placebos only increased 4 BUT only made a diff when malnourished

The Flynn Effect - average IQ raised 35 from 1930s to 1980s - due to improved education, staying in school, better systems, more equal opps

Enrichment programme - HEADSTART - offers additional help to those struggling in English/maths - LT follow up children who participated more likely to graduate

Culture - western cultures more used to formal standardised testing - people in different cultures have diff specialised skills eg Inuits have very developed visuospatial skills

Question 2

AO2

Perry pre school project 
BITCH test
Environ reductionist 
Ravens progressive matrices
Vernon

Answer 2

Perry - 3/4 year old African American children given extra educational help - resulted in IQ scores, more likely to graduate and earn more and less likely to be involved in crime
BITCH test - black intelligence test of cultural homogeneity - Lang used affects performance - IQ test AAwhites

Reductionist - influence of genes, biochem imp

Ravens progressive matrices - all tests are biased so cross cultural comparison is meaningless

Vernon - many cultures unfamiliar with IQ tests - may lose interest - some concepts alien eg Gurkhas did not understand fitting pegs in holes n