Essay Quiz


1		Your roommates are arguing about IQ. One says that it’s a useful measure that can help maximize children’s education, but the other says it’s meaningless and children wind up being labeled, which then affects their entire development. They also can’t agree on whether intelligence is a matter of nature or nurture—is it something we’re born with or can it be affected by our environment? The one thing they have agreed on is that intelligence tests are biased and should not be used, but one thinks researchers could come up with a useful measure, whereas the other says it’s impossible. Because you are taking this class in life-span development, they turn to you for your enlightened opinion. What can you tell them?



2		Your mother comes home from work and tells you about an interesting discussion she had with some coworkers that involved intelligence. They watched one of the “TV magazine” shows that argued about whether intelligence is one general concept (“Wow! Is she intelligent!) or involves many specific realms (“He’s a whiz at math, but doesn’t have the sense to come in out of the rain!”). One of the coworkers also commented that he heard you can predict a person’s later intelligence as early as infancy. Your mother asks you to provide some insight on this discussion, so what do you tell her?

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