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BSc DE100 Investigating Psychology (Investigating Intelligence) Quiz on Heritability, created by Anneliese Shaw on 29/09/2016.

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Heritability

Question 1 of 9

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Heritability research seeks to find out:

Select one of the following:

  • How important intelligence is for school performance.

  • ow important genes are compared to the environment when it comes to explaining differences between people in some trait or characteristic.

  • Which genes determine intelligence.

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Question 2 of 9

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Heritability refers to:

Select one of the following:

  • The extent to which differences between groups in society are due to genetic factors.

  • The extent to which a person’s intelligence is determined by their genetic heritage.

  • The extent to which variability, within a population, in a particular trait or characteristic, is explained by difference in genetic makeup.

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Question 3 of 9

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A heritability estimate is:

Select one of the following:

  • A figure that describes the extent to which a person’s intelligence is due to their genes.

  • A figure that describes the extent to which variability in a trait (in this case intelligence) is accounted for by variability in genes.

  • A figure that describes how much of a group’s average intellectual ability is accounted for by their genetic heritage.

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Question 4 of 9

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Genes play a role in explaining differences in intelligence.

Select one of the following:

  • Eugenicist.

  • Hereditarian.

  • Both.

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Question 5 of 9

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Select from the dropdown list to complete the text.

The ( Eugenicist, hereditarian ) view is that intelligence is fixed and unalterable by circumstances in life.

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Question 6 of 9

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

The view is that an individuals intelligence is the product of a complex interaction between and

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Question 7 of 9

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According to intelligence research, what does the 'missing heritability problem' refer to?

Select one of the following:

  • The inability to agree on what intelligence is.

  • The inability of scientists to identify specific genes that differentiate high and low scorers on IQ tests.

  • The inability to come up with a precise heritability estimate

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Question 8 of 9

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Which of these tests are a method of studying heritability of intelligence

Select one or more of the following:

  • Studies of twins reared apart.

  • The army testing programme.

  • The Human Genome Project.

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Question 9 of 9

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What is the 'equal enviornment assumption?

Select one of the following:

  • The assumption that genes and the environment contribute equally to the development of intelligence.

  • The assumption that all people are equal in terms of their abilities.

  • 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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