Is Intelligence Inherited?

Question 1

What is nature?

Answer 1

means innate biological factors (namely genetics)

Question 2

What is nurture?

Answer 2

an refer to upbringing or life experience more generally.

Question 3

What is inherited?

Answer 3

the transmission of physical or psychological traits from parents to their offspring

Question 4

What is environmental?

Answer 4

upbringing, culture, geographic location, and life experiences

Question 5

How can nurture and nature affect our intellegence?

Answer 5

• Bouchard et al (1990), Plomin et als (1997)

Nature: Predetermined by our genetic inheritance we receive from our biological parents?

Nurture: how can our upbringing, experiences and education influence, social setting and relationships towards our intelligence?

• intelligence levels showed a strong heritability link

Question 6

What is the Minnesota study?

hint: nature

Answer 6

• extensive study per participant (50 hours)
• variable genetic factors 70% variance
• strong inheritance link
• parenting, eduction, social levels should be considered/

Question 7

what is the Adoption Study? what were the results?

Answer 7

• genetic vs environmental on cognitive development
• the test was conducted over 20 years
• these test were measured general cognitive ability, verbal ability, spatial ability, processing speed, and recognition of memory.
• adoptive children resembled their adoptive parents slightly in childhood
• during childhood they became more like their biological parents
• this level became consistent with the matched non-adoptive offspring