BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
PREDICTING INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
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neural plasticity.
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intelligence quotient.
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heritability.
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the Flynn effect.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Heritability of intelligence refers to: the amount of group variation in intelligence that can be attributed to genetics. The most widely used modern intelligence test was developed by: David Wechsler.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why is the brain’s plasticity good news for deaf or blind people? the principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks.
Detailed explanation-3: -Correct. The existence of savant syndrome seems to support Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. Gardner argues that we do not have an intelligence, but rather multiple intelligences.
Detailed explanation-4: -A test is standardized when all the students taking the test have to respond to the same set of carefully selected questions. This allows people who look at the results to make comparisons among groups of students.