PSYC 102 Lecture 7: Intelligence Part 2
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Office hours today: 1:45-3:45 pm kenny 3533. Activity assignment #1 due friday oct 7th. Brief history of the study of intelligence. Debate on where does intelligence come from? . Plato was a nativist, thought knowledge as inborn and was inherently designed to know. Aristotle (plato"s student) was an empiricist (nurture side), that we learn from the environment and born more as a blank slate. Defined as proportion of performance variance in a sample that"s attributed to the variability of genes. (non-specific to individual) intelligence. 50%-75% estimated of the intelligence score variation is inherited. Dogs can and have been selectively bred for certain traits, such as hunting dogs or dog. (both rely on correlations between pairs of people who vary in their genetic. Rats can be bred for maze running ability. Separated two groups of rats, lower 50% dull rats and top 50% smart rats.
