Why was Galton wrong to conclude that genius ran in families?
What is the eugenics movement?
Hans Eysenck found that black people's test results were about fifteen IQ points below the average of the white population in IQ. Give two possible explanations for this finding.
How can identical twins be used to investigate whether intelligence is a result of nature or nurture?
How can adopted children help us to answer this question?
According to Shields (1962) what factors threw doubt upon twin study findings?
What were Horn's findings?
What made these findings more valid?
In Skodak and Skeels' (1945) study of adopted children they found that there was a closer correlation between adopted children's IQs and those of their biological mothers. Why was it a mistake to conclude that intelligence is inherited?
Write down three factors that influence intelligence.
What are head start programmes?
What was the effect on children of the head start programmes?
Write down a definition of intelligence.
Evaluate this definition.
Describe Spearman's two different types of intelligence.
What are Eysenck's three approaches to intelligence?
Why did Eysenck favour the biological approach?
What two conclusions can be made from the finding that Einstein had more Glial cells in certain areas of his brain?
Why are PET scan studies also of little use in deciding the nature-nurture question?
Intelligence Testing
What is psychometric testing?
What does 'nomothetic' mean?
What does 'ideographic' mean?
What is a normal distribution curve?
What is the centre point of the curve?
Knowing the mean and standard deviation what can we calculate?
What did Binet invent?
What is meant by mental age?
What is meant by chronological age?
What did Terman develop?
How did Binet and Terman differ in their views about the purpose of intelligence tests?
What is the formula for working out IQ?
If a child has a, logical age of nine and an IQ of 100, what is the child's mental age?
How does Weschler work out IQ?
What sort of abilities or what sort of tests does the Wechler scales use?
Gould, a nation of morons
What was the difference between Yerkes army alpha test and the army beta test?
What was the main criticism of these tests?
Why might IQ tests discriminate against working class candidates?
Why is it that tests standardised on one population cannot be used to measure the IQ of people from different populations?
List some of the problems that were encountered during the administration of the tests.
What did Boring do with Yerke's results?
What did Boring find out?
What did Carl Brigham do with Boring's findings?
What did he conclude?
What reasons did he give?
Why did the immigration restriction act base the quota of immigrants on the 1890 figures rather than the 1920 figures?
What were the horrendous consequences of this act?