Flynn Effect

Flynn Effect

1. Environmental Complexity

   • Exposure to the media
   • Exposure to Television and video games
   • Visual images of what is expected of us when it comes to body image etc.
   • "Enriched mental environment" (Russell, 2007).

2. Nutritional factors and food changes

   • Differences in calorie intake now than years ago
   • Exposure and consumption of GMO's and chemically modified of enhanced foods

3. Flynn effect definition: The rising IQ curve (Dickinson & Hiscock, 2011). Environmental influences intelligence, and IQ tests have been increasing over generations.

4. Adoption studies

   • "The impact of experience and heredity" (Weiten & McCann, 2016).
   • "Adopted children show resemblance with adoptive parents" (Weiten & McCann, 2016).
   • "Adoptive parents shape the environment of the child" (Weiten & McCann, 2016).
   • "Siblings reared together more similar than siblings reared apart" (Weiten & McCann, 2016).
   • Similar in IQ

5. Family factors and parenting styles IQ

   • Decrease in family size increases IQ due to time spent with each child academically (Daley, et al., 2003).
   • Parents now have more education to pass on to their children than people a long time ago
   • Now, parents are more concerned about their children excelling academically now rather than working on family farms, in family businesses etc.
   • Differences in societal norms (Russell, 2007).

6. Schooling factors

   • The concern for attendance in school now is more important that it was in the 20th century due to working conditions etc (Daley, et al., 2003).
   • A larger amount of the population are bringing to obtain a higher level of schooling and education (Russell, 2007).

7. Definition of the Wechsler Scale: WAIS stands for the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, less dependent on subjects verbal ability, and a more on non-verbal reasoning. Performance and verbal scale are both looked at (Weiten & McCann, 2016).

8. Test taking abilities

   • Children are being taught how to take tests and are given the opportunity to be tested in a way that best suits their learning abilities.
   • Visual learning, hands on, audio etc.

9. Heredity vs environmental

   • "Intelligence is produced by a combination of inheritance and environmental effects" (Russell, 2007).

10. Plateau effect

    • More optimal and better living conditions, which is associated with environmental surroundings (Russell, 2007).
      • Welfare systems helping people achieve better living conditions (Russell, 2007).