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Intelligence gender and racial differences
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- 1Who's self-estimated intelligence is higher?Men
- 2Who is better at at spelling and verbal fluency?Women
- 3Who is better at complex math?Men
- 4Who is more affected by the stereotype threat when it comes to a math test?Women
- 5Who is most likely to need remedial math class but also more likely to earn higher math grades (varying intelligences of both the low and high extremes)?Men
- 6Who believes that these differences are due to genetic differences and is he right?Steven Pinker, no he is not right
- 7What are gender intelligence differences due to?Cultural influences
- 8What is the scientific definition of bias?A test is not biased if it predicts future behaviour for all groups of test takers (biased tests would predict the achievement of women but not men)
- 9How do we as people define bias?A test is biased if it can be influenced by a test-takers cultural differences
- 10What is the stereotype threat?Of concerned that they will be evaluated based on stereotypes, a person will act in a way to confirm the stereotype (self-fulfilling prophecy) - explains why black test-takers perform better when being tested by a black person
- 11What type of a test compares the intelligence of different age cohorts?Cross-sectional study
- 12True or false, a growth mindset can increase grades?True
- 13Why do women tend to do better in post-secondary education?They are more conscientious
- 14What part of the brain is more fullydeveloped in a privileged household?Pre frontal cortex
- 15What is the IQ of someone who scored higher than all but 2.5% of a population on a WAIS test?130
- 16When are IQ scores most stable?in grade 11
- 17What is the range of the herediability for intelligence?50-80%
- 18What is the best evidence that intelligence scores are influenced by environment?Identical twins raised apart are less similar in their intelligence than identical twins raised together
- 19What would it mean for a test where men always scored higher than women?The test is biased
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- Cambridge PSYCH 1215 (Chapter 14/10) FlashCards sobre Intelligence gender and racial differences, criado por sarah friedman em 01-06-2023.
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