Environmental Effects of Intellect and Iq
Environmental effects of intellect and IQ
Have you ever wondered how a baby grows into a child then into an adult? I never really thought about it myself until I had children of my own. It is amazing to see all the psychological stages they have gone through already in their short lives and before they become adults they will go through many more stages. Some developmental psychologists believe that all children go through the same stages in the same order. That is not to say that all children do things at the exact same time in their life, because different factors can speed up or slow down a child’s development. I am particularly interested in how the home environment factor affects the development of intellect. In order to determine this we must first understand what intelligence is and how we measure it. Intelligence is defined as a global capacity to understand the world, think rationally, and cope resourcefully with the challenges of life. (Crandell, 223) But how do we assess a person’s intelligence? The current standard for assessing a person’s intelligence is the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale. The test consists of age-graded tasks designed to measure the average intellectual performance of children aged 3 through 13. The child’s IQ (intelligence quotient), which was said to be as a measure of his brightness or rate of intellectual development, was calculated by dividing his mental age by his chronological age and then multiplying by 100 or IQ=MA/CA x 100. (Shaffer, 321) The assignment of IQ scores is calculated from the comparison of an individual 's test score with the mean score of the other people his or her own age. An IQ of 100 indicates an average intelligence or that the child performed comparable to those their own age. A score above 100 would indicate that the child performed above the norm or at a level that matches someone older than them. Likewise, a score below 100 would indicate that the child performed equal to
Have you ever wondered how a baby grows into a child then into an adult? I never really thought about it myself until I had children of my own. It is amazing to see all the psychological stages they have gone through already in their short lives and before they become adults they will go through many more stages. Some developmental psychologists believe that all children go through the same stages in the same order. That is not to say that all children do things at the exact same time in their life, because different factors can speed up or slow down a child’s development. I am particularly interested in how the home environment factor affects the development of intellect. In order to determine this we must first understand what intelligence is and how we measure it. Intelligence is defined as a global capacity to understand the world, think rationally, and cope resourcefully with the challenges of life. (Crandell, 223) But how do we assess a person’s intelligence? The current standard for assessing a person’s intelligence is the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale. The test consists of age-graded tasks designed to measure the average intellectual performance of children aged 3 through 13. The child’s IQ (intelligence quotient), which was said to be as a measure of his brightness or rate of intellectual development, was calculated by dividing his mental age by his chronological age and then multiplying by 100 or IQ=MA/CA x 100. (Shaffer, 321) The assignment of IQ scores is calculated from the comparison of an individual 's test score with the mean score of the other people his or her own age. An IQ of 100 indicates an average intelligence or that the child performed comparable to those their own age. A score above 100 would indicate that the child performed above the norm or at a level that matches someone older than them. Likewise, a score below 100 would indicate that the child performed equal to
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