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Quiz by Anneliese Shaw, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Anneliese Shaw
over 7 years ago
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Question 1
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Heritability research seeks to find out:
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How important intelligence is for school performance.
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ow important genes are compared to the environment when it comes to explaining differences between people in some trait or characteristic.
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Which genes determine intelligence.
Question 2
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Heritability refers to:
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The extent to which differences between groups in society are due to genetic factors.
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The extent to which a person’s intelligence is determined by their genetic heritage.
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The extent to which variability, within a population, in a particular trait or characteristic, is explained by difference in genetic makeup.
Question 3
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A heritability estimate is:
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A figure that describes the extent to which a person’s intelligence is due to their genes.
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A figure that describes the extent to which variability in a trait (in this case intelligence) is accounted for by variability in genes.
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A figure that describes how much of a group’s average intellectual ability is accounted for by their genetic heritage.
Question 4
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Genes play a role in explaining differences in intelligence.
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Eugenicist.
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Hereditarian.
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Both.
Question 5
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The [blank_start]Eugenicist[blank_end] view is that intelligence is fixed and unalterable by circumstances in life.
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Eugenicist
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hereditarian
Question 6
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The [blank_start]Hereditarian[blank_end] view is that an individuals intelligence is the product of a complex interaction between [blank_start]genes[blank_end] and [blank_start]environment[blank_end]
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Hereditarian
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genes
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environment
Question 7
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According to intelligence research, what does the 'missing heritability problem' refer to?
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The inability to agree on what intelligence is.
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The inability of scientists to identify specific genes that differentiate high and low scorers on IQ tests.
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The inability to come up with a precise heritability estimate
Question 8
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Which of these tests are a method of studying heritability of intelligence
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Studies of twins reared apart.
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The army testing programme.
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The Human Genome Project.
Question 9
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What is the 'equal enviornment assumption?
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The assumption that genes and the environment contribute equally to the development of intelligence.
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The assumption that all people are equal in terms of their abilities.
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The assumption that twins raised together experience roughly equal environments, regardless of how much of their genetic material they share (whether they are identical or non-identical twins).
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