Using your own words, describe what is meant by ‘scientific racism’ and ‘heritability’ and provide an example of each, drawing on the material presented in Investigating Intelligence.
This essay will define and explain the terms ‘scientific racism’ and ‘heritability’, and further it is going present an example of each from the book “Investigating Intelligence” to support and give better understanding of these psychological terms.
Scientific Racism is a psychological term, technique or hypothesis, that in order to justify the racial superiority and inferiority, it manipulates scientific methods and theories. An example of this was identified by Yerkes’s interpretation of the scientific data, in the performance of US Army recruits. Yerkes argued …show more content…
Question 2: the table shows that:
Answer: On average, the group that showed the greatest improvement in IQ six months after activities stopped was the group who played multi-user games without VR.
Question 3: Which of the following conclusions do you think is a better fit for the data in the table?
Answer: The table shows that while all groups showed a strong initial improvement in average IQ after one month of completing the activities, the increase was not maintained; IQ scores declined six months after the activities stopped, but remained higher than at baseline.
Data presented in the table suggests that leisure activity in both Children’s TV and Multi-user games without VR headsets led to an increase in IQ scores one month after the programme ended i,e 13 IQ points in the case of Children’s TV and 15 points in the case of Multi-user games without VR. Although in these two cases were the most increase, but they dropped by four points each 6 month after the activities stopped. However, on the other hand Multi-user games with VR had the least increase by 11 points, but had the most drops by 6 points. (99
This essay will define and explain the terms ‘scientific racism’ and ‘heritability’, and further it is going present an example of each from the book “Investigating Intelligence” to support and give better understanding of these psychological terms.
Scientific Racism is a psychological term, technique or hypothesis, that in order to justify the racial superiority and inferiority, it manipulates scientific methods and theories. An example of this was identified by Yerkes’s interpretation of the scientific data, in the performance of US Army recruits. Yerkes argued …show more content…
Question 2: the table shows that:
Answer: On average, the group that showed the greatest improvement in IQ six months after activities stopped was the group who played multi-user games without VR.
Question 3: Which of the following conclusions do you think is a better fit for the data in the table?
Answer: The table shows that while all groups showed a strong initial improvement in average IQ after one month of completing the activities, the increase was not maintained; IQ scores declined six months after the activities stopped, but remained higher than at baseline.
Data presented in the table suggests that leisure activity in both Children’s TV and Multi-user games without VR headsets led to an increase in IQ scores one month after the programme ended i,e 13 IQ points in the case of Children’s TV and 15 points in the case of Multi-user games without VR. Although in these two cases were the most increase, but they dropped by four points each 6 month after the activities stopped. However, on the other hand Multi-user games with VR had the least increase by 11 points, but had the most drops by 6 points. (99