Using MS Word, answer the following questions in a minimum of 500 words total. Your document MUST be in MS Word (.doc or .docx extension) in order for your Instructor to be able to open it. Remember that the college provides you with free access to Office365 which includes MS Word. See your syllabus for more information on gaining access to Office365.
Formatting Requirements: You must use the APA Writing Style 7th edition. Please review the APA Formatting Resources folder for details about the APA style. This includes the Title Page (page 1), the response to the following directions (Page 2 through 3),Reference Page (last page of the report).
Define Intelligence. Describe the influence of nature and nurture on intelligence: what is heritability? What do twin studies tell us about the importance of genetics on intelligence? What about how children who have been adopted and how their intelligence scores relate to their biological parents?
What are some environmental influences on intelligence?
Discuss where researchers believe High Intelligence comes from. Is it Nature (biological/genetic)? Is it Nurture (the environmental factors)? Is it both or somewhere in between?
Finally, discussion the risk of socioeconomic biases in the current IQ testing tools that our society uses.