Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Intelligence
- Nurture
- Nature
- Family Resemblance Studies
- Close Genetic Make up=Close IQ
- Twins raised in different environments
- eliminates nurture debate
- adoption
- Bouchard & McGue (1981)
- Review of 111 worldwide studies
- Mono Twins reared together= 0.86
- Mono Twins reared apart= 0.72
- More than Di twins reared
together suggests genetic
influences
- Di Twins reared together= 0.60
- Sibling reared together= 0.47
- Siblings reared apart= 0.24
- Cousins=0.15
- Average Correlations of IQ
- Bouchard & McGue (1990)
- Minnesota Twin Study
- 70% of IQ scores= Genetic Inheritance
- Methodological Criticisms
- Kamin (1977)
- Difficult to control environmental influences
- Adoption
- Different environment not guaranteed
- Similar family environments
- Infants not separated from birth
- Same womb experience
- Self-selecting sampling techniques
- Exaggeration of similarities
- Different IQ tests
- Can't compare results
- Experimenter Bias
- Validity
- Cyril Burt...Rejected
- Overly genetic
interpretation of data
- Neglect environmental influences
- Selective Breeding
- Thompson (1952)
- "Maze-bright" rats
- 6th generation= 80% fewer mistakes
- "Maze-dull" rats
- Henderson (1970)
- Enriched environmental conditions
- rats won't always improve
- Some rats improved,
suggests interaction between
genetic abilities and
environmental experience
- obstacles to find food
- Cannot selectively breed humans
- Problems generalising results to humans