PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lev Vygotsky, Claude Steele, Stereotype Threat

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2AA3
• Professor: Jennifer Ostovich

Document Summary

Part 2: effects of nature and nurture on intelligence. Is intelligence heritable: huge political/economic debate in the u. s. If intelligence fully inherited, then social programs not needed. Lecture outline: data supporting the heritability of intelligence, data supporting effects of environmental factors on intelligence, group differences in intelligence. Sample behavioural genetics data 1 (bouchard group, minnesota twin study, 1990s) Concordance between mz together and apart were the top as dz together, siblings and. Effects of genes on intelligence increases with age. Meta-analyses combines data into one huge set and analyses it incorporating genes, family. Unique environment: in uences that tend to differentiate siblings that are living within a home. Genes: the older we get 2-18 the greater variation is accounted for through genetics. Study: bred maze bright vs. maze dull rats, impoverished vs normal vs. enriched environments, impoverished no cage and lacking utilities vs rich environment has a large cage, clean, food, toys etc.