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Jensen 1969 Flashcards

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What was Jensen’s (1969) controversial claim about the education of children with low SES?

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Education should be tailored to the abilities of low SES children.

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What did the 1954 Brown v Board of education end?

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segregation in education

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when was discrimination banned

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1964

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What differences were found in academic achievment?

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  • Minority groups
  • Socioeconomic status (SES)
  • Lead to:
  • President Lyndon Johnson’s Great society & War on Poverty
  • Head Start Program (since 1965)
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what is the head start programme?

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• Comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition and parental assistance to low-income children and their families in the US.

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How did Sesame Street help children?

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 Sesame street helps children get to a minimal level of education before school

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What did Jensen think psychologists could try to raise

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naitonal IQ

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What is the definition of intelligence?

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“The aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment” (Wechsler, 1944)

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What does IQ stand for?

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Intelligence Quotient

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What % of the population have an IQ between 85-115?

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68%

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What % of the populaiton have an IQ between 70-130

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95%

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What % of the populaiton have an IQ between 55-145?

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99.7%

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What is a paired association task?

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recall randomly paired stimuli

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what is a serial learning task?

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recall items in the correct order

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How was SES and IQ measured

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Paired association and serial learning tasks

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16
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What did IQ correlate to?

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• IQ highly correlated to learning scores in mid/high SES

17
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What can IQ tests also assess

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cultural learning

18
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What are races?

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populations with different distributions of genes

19
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Where are genetic differences?

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• Genetic differences manifest in virtually all anatomical, physiological and biochemical comparisons to date (in 1969 this was mainly in blood constituents)

20
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what is heritability?

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the proportion of variation in a trait in a population that can be attributed to genetic differences

21
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What is the heritabiltiy estimate for IQ?

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0.45-0.80

22
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High heritability does not mean what

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that a trait is immutable

23
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What was the research q?

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Understand the discrepancy between IQ and achievement in low/high SES

24
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what was Jensens main argument?

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Open up genetics as a potential avenue of research into IQ differences

25
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how much further below was African American IQ

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• African-American IQ distribution is 15 IQ points below the IQ distribution of European-Americans

smaller variance too

26
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What is Jensenism?

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The belief that African-Americans are mentally inferior

27
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how did Jensen disagree with science only being used for some things?

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– He claimed that this was why the discussion of the possibility of genetic determination of racial differences in test scores had stopped
– Just because something is ‘socially inappropriate’ doesn’t make it immune to scientific scrutiny… if anything, it makes it all the more necessary to investigate all avenues with appropriate rigor

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What is the Flynn effect

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• Worldwide intelligence test scores rise by 3 points per decade

29
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what is stereotype threat?

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• Knowledge of traits (e.g. gender, race) associated with low scores tend to reduce the scores in people who have those traits (Steele & Aronson, 1995)
– Reminding women about their gender before a maths test leads to lower maths performance
– Reminding African Americans about their ethnic background leads to lower performance on intelligence tests

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