PSY EXAM 3 CH. 10

Define

100

Twins who develop two different eggs that were fertilized by two different sperms

Fraternal Twins

200

Those environmental factors that are experienced by all relevant members of a household. Live together and have mostly everything in common

Shared Environment

300

Mental level was thought to be this, best way to determine whether a child was developing normally is to examine this term and the child's physical age. EX: "He is 10 but has the mental level of an 5 year old"

Mental Age

400

The ability to reason about emotions and to use emotions to enhance reasoning.

Emotional Intelligence

500

A person of normal intelligence who has an extraordinary ability

Prodigy

Define

100

A person of low intelligence who has an extraordinary ability

Savant

200

Those environmental factors that are not experienced by all relevant members of a household. Live together but do not share much in common

Non-shared Environment

300

Higher SES=Higher Intelligence Better environment for brain development

Relationship between intelligence and SES

400

A statistic (H2) that describes the proportion of the difference between people's scores that can be explained y differences in their genes.

Heritability Coefficient

500

Choosing to breast feed raises the IQ rather than not breast feeding

Breast Feeding and IQ

Define

100

Formal education increases test taking scores but does very little in other categories

Relationship between intelligence scores and formal education

300

Share 50% of their genes and do not have the same intelligence, and the others share 100% of genes and same intelligence level, and if they have the same environment then they will have a similar intelligence score.

Fraternal,Identical, just siblings