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Biological Influences on Intelligence (background for Intelligence)
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- 1Is there differences in gender intelligence?- not that one gender is more intelligent than another
- but there are differences in intelligence - 2What does the research of Halpern (1997) show?- women are generally more linguistically intelligent
- men are much more logically and spatially intelligent - 3What did Halpern see as the cause for the differences in intelligence between the genders?- there are neural anatomical differences between men and women
- XY or XX
- environmental factors such as adverts - 4What research did Haier (2005) conduct?- used MRI's to see anatomical differences between men and women who had showed differences in their intelligence tests (different types of intelligence)
- 5What were the results of Haier's 2005 research?- men have greater grey matter volume in their frontal and parietal lobes
- women have greater grey matter volume in their left hemisphere and in particular the Broca's area - 6What is the function of the frontal and parietal lobes?- high-level logical reasoning
- motor skills - 7What is the function in the left hemisphere and the Broca's area of the brain?- speech and writing skills
- 8What did Van Goozen (1995) test for?- tested the intelligence of individuals undergoing sex changes (longitudinal study)
- transitioning from female to male were given high levels of testosterone
- do hormones influence intelligence? - 9What were the results from Van Goozen's (1995) study?- increases in the logical and spatial abilities
- decreases in linguistic abilities - 10What happened when Van Goozen applied the study to males transitioning to female?the reverse effect
- linguistic skills increased
- logical and spatial skills decreased - 11Negatives of Van Goozen's research?- shows that biological factors do influence intelligence but there may have been unaccounted for factors that influenced the results (individual differences)
- very reductionist - 12What evidence is there to show the intelligence may be genetical?- stronger correlation of intelligence between monozygotic twins than in dizygotic twins
- 13What evidence is there to show that intelligence may not be genetical?- no gene or gene combination had been found that contributes to intelligence
- 14What 4 factors do genetic differences/similarities not take into consideration?- assortative mating
- genotype-environment factor
- phenotypic assortment
- social homogamy - 15What is assortative mating?- individuals with similar phenotypes (characteristics) mate with one another more frequently than under a random mating pattern
- 16What is genotype-environment factor?- interaction between nature and nurture
- environmental factors working with genes - 17What is phenotypic assortment?- search your mate for the characteristics you want, and if they don't have them then you end the relationship
- we want our offspring to survive and be intelligent - 18What is social homogamy?- people who are similar (characteristically) are likely to be in a similar environment so consequently are more likely to mate
- 19Main psychologists to know for this background research into biological influences on intelligence:- Halpern (1997)
- Haier (2005)
- Van Goozen (1995)
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- A level Psychology (Applied - Intelligence) Flashcards on Biological Influences on Intelligence (background for Intelligence) , created by Katie Crowfoot on 02/01/2019.
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