Genes, Brains, and Human Potential The Science and Ideology of Intelligence
288 HUMAN INTELLIGENCE the search for genes for “gift edness.” I mentioned in chapter 1 how groups in Britain and China are scan ...
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE 289 by others. We justly praise the special eff orts and achievements of indi- viduals, but most will readily ...
MODELS OF CAUSES AND EFFECTS W e all operate with mental models of external real ity. Usually they are informal and implicit, de ...
PROMOTING POTENTIAL 291 remove obstacles to it, and guide intervention, as necessary. Of course, our models of human development ...
292 PROMOTING POTENTIAL possibility of treating psychological conditions in analogous ways, that is, by assuming that diff er en ...
PROMOTING POTENTIAL 293 dromic repeats;” it is Science magazine’s “Breakthrough of the Year” for 2015), allows for DNA to be cut ...
294 PROMOTING POTENTIAL variation is mostly irrelevant. And the output of the genes is highly un- predictable for very good biol ...
PROMOTING POTENTIAL 295 ity of individuals, the variation has little, if anything, to do with ge ne- tics. Moreover, it is also ...
296 PROMOTING POTENTIAL will be seen, these categories are not entirely mutually exclusive, but my purpose is to illustrate, not ...
PROMOTING POTENTIAL 297 However, other dietary factors have been associated with deleterious eff ects, either as general underno ...
298 PROMOTING POTENTIAL these correlations, however. One question is whether cognitive functions are being directly aff ected or ...
PROMOTING POTENTIAL 299 those who had been adopted into regular homes in the United Kingdom at vari ous ages. In fact, most adop ...
300 PROMOTING POTENTIAL those reared in cages with toys, ladders, tunnels, running wheels, and so on. Th ey found that enriched ...
PROMOTING POTENTIAL 301 very big (2–5 percent in most studies). Moreover, changes to cortical vol- ume and thickness may not ne ...
302 PROMOTING POTENTIAL scales; or observational checklists in homes, schools, peer groups, and neighborhoods. A major aim has b ...
PROMOTING POTENTIAL 303 United States, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Devel- opment’s Study of Early Child Car ...
304 PROMOTING POTENTIAL between nonshared experiences and siblings’ diff erential outcomes con- cluded that “mea sured non- shar ...
PROMOTING POTENTIAL 305 lum. And, indeed, at least some of these eff orts seemed to result in improved school per for mance. How ...
306 PROMOTING POTENTIAL THE CURRENT CONTEXT As we moved into the new millennium and beyond, the meritocratic tar- get of equal o ...
PROMOTING POTENTIAL 307 However, new alarms are now sounding around the OECD’s new Programme for International Student Assessmen ...
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