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What is assortative mating?
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Genotype means
Interaction between genes and environment
An individuals internal, inherited information
A genetic abnormality
Having a first degree relative
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What is assortative mating?
People with different characteristics mating more often
People with similar characteristics mating more often
Selective breeding
Mating with someone who has desirable genes
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the Van Leeuwen study took place in which country?
Netherlands
Belgium
Denmark
Sweden
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Which cognitive test was completed by the children in the study?
RPM
SPM
APM
IPM
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Which tasks were on the SPM for the children in the study?
Identifying missing puzzle pieces
Number sequences
Rotating shapes
Completing analogies
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What is fluid intelligence?
Memorising information
Reasoning on the spot
Learning a new skill
Applying knowledge to novel situations
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Men and women have been found to achieve
Similar IQ results despite brain differences
Different IQ results because of brain differences
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Research shows that women have more grey matter in
Temporal lobes
Frontal lobes
Parietal lobes
Brocas area
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Adults in the study completed which test?
IPM
RPM
SPM
APM
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Carroll 1993 came up wit a model of intelligence called
3 strata model
3 stratum model
2 strada model
3 striatum model
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women score higher on tests that involve tasks requiring...
Mathematical skills
Verbal fluency
Visual-spatial skills
General knowledge
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Environmental factors were found to be more important in which groups in the study?
Adults with genetic disposition for high IQ
Children with genetic disposition for high IQ
Children with genetic disposition for low IQ
Adults with genetic disposition for low IQ
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Most modern IQ test measure
perception
memory
Logical reasoning
moral reasoning
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What does the study conclude about phenotypic assortment?
People mate with people who are in the same environment
Assortative mating - people choose someone with similar IQ
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What is the Flynn effect?
Intergenerational gain in IQ
Intergenerational decline in IQ
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IQ measures derived for the tests were estimated using which model in the study?
Rasch
Craven
Wasch
Raven
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What is social homogeny?
People are different
The idea that "birds of a feather flock together."
People in the same country are all very similar
People with similar IQ are clustered in the same environment
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No significant differences were found in the results of the study between
Different religions
Males and females
Different cultures
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Which types of people were involved?
Twins
SEN
Triplets
People with psychiatric problems
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Men perform better on tasks that involve
Mental rotation
Science
Mathematics
Spatial skills
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Which groups of people are more likely to have similar intellectual abilities?
adoptive parents and children
Biological parents and children
MZ twins
DZ twins
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Epistasis is another word for
Genotype-environment correlation
Genotype-environment interaction
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What did Flynn think was the cause of this?
An increase in logical reasoning
An increase in IT skills
An increase in problem solving abilities
An increase in maths abilities
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How was zygosity confirmed in the Van Leeuwen study?
Checked birth certificates
DNA cheek swab
Questionnaire
Blood test
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This is responsible for success across a range of different mental tasks for an individual
Y factor
G factor
X factor
A factor
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Which groups of people are likely to be given the RPM test?
Linguists
People with ASD
Children
People with language difficulties
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The correlation between spouses for IQ in the study was
Extremely high
Moderately low
Extremely low
Moderately high
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Which area of the brain does research show that men have more grey matter?
Temporal lobes
Parietal lobes
Broca's area
Frontal lobes
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Which gene was implicated in research into teenagers in explaining variation in intelligence?
ATP50
MAOA
Neuroplastin
BAK1
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Which psychologist studied relationships between performance across unrelated academic subjects
Charles Dance
Charles Bronson
Charles Spearman
Charles Whitman
