Jensen 1969

Question 1

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

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What did the 1954 Brown v Board of education end?

Answer 2

segregation in education

Question 3

when was discrimination banned

Answer 3

1964

Question 4

What differences were found in academic achievment?

Answer 4

• Minority groups
• Socioeconomic status (SES)
• Lead to:
• President Lyndon Johnson’s Great society & War on Poverty
• Head Start Program (since 1965)

Question 5

what is the head start programme?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

How did Sesame Street help children?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What did Jensen think psychologists could try to raise

Answer 7

naitonal IQ

Question 8

What is the definition of intelligence?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

What does IQ stand for?

Answer 9

Intelligence Quotient

Question 10

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

Answer 10

68%

Question 11

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

Answer 11

95%

Question 12

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

Answer 12

99.7%

Question 13

What is a paired association task?

Answer 13

recall randomly paired stimuli

Question 14

what is a serial learning task?

Answer 14

recall items in the correct order

Question 15

How was SES and IQ measured

Answer 15

Paired association and serial learning tasks

Question 16

What did IQ correlate to?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What can IQ tests also assess

Answer 17

cultural learning

Question 18

What are races?

Answer 18

populations with different distributions of genes

Question 19

Where are genetic differences?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

what is heritability?

Answer 20

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

Question 21

What is the heritabiltiy estimate for IQ?

Answer 21

0.45-0.80

Question 22

High heritability does not mean what

Answer 22

that a trait is immutable

Question 23

What was the research q?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

what was Jensens main argument?

Answer 24

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

Question 25

how much further below was African American IQ

Answer 25

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

Question 26

What is Jensenism?

Answer 26

The belief that African-Americans are mentally inferior

Question 27

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

Answer 27

– 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

Question 28

What is the Flynn effect

Answer 28

• Worldwide intelligence test scores rise by 3 points per decade

Question 29

what is stereotype threat?

Answer 29

• 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