Researchers Christiane Capron and Michel Duyme compared IQ scores of adopted children raised by parents with high socio-economic status (SES) and parents with low SES, and found that the children raised by parents with high SES had higher IQ scores and the children raised by parents with low SES had lower IQ scores. In addition, children of biological parents with high SES scored higher than children of biological parents with low SES.
The abstract is available for free, but the full study may incur a fee.
http://www.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989Natur.340..552C
Worried About Your Worrying? Study Sees Common Benefits of Worrying And Intelligence
Researchers say that intelligence may have co-evolved with
worry. And both are seen as beneficial
traits.
Are Taller People Smarter Than Shorter People, and, If So, Why?
Here is an interesting article from the archives of Psychology Today addressing that question:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/200901/why-are-taller-people-more-intelligent-shorter-people
If you would like to comment about this, please know that we would welcome your thoughts.
VISIT DR. E. DROGE
Find out more about Dr. E. Droge - including information on his books - at
http://www.amazon.com/author/droge
http://www.amazon.com/author/droge
IMPORTANT LINKS - IQ and INTELLIGENCE TESTS
Regarding IQ and intelligence tests - here are links from Dr. Droge's book, Intelligent Children: A Brief Introduction To What Today's Smart Parents Know About Increasing A Child's Intelligence :
Stanford-Binet Test: http://www.assess.nelson.com/pdf/sb5-asb1.pdf
Raven's Progressive Matrices: http://books.google.com/books?id=sMSWbI23RMUC&pg=PA460&lpg=PA460&dq=history+of+Raven%E2%80%99s+Progressive+Matrices&source=bl&ots=PdMFYpWxFZ&sig=m8mhpRjYXYm03XBB0nyOzv-MrFc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Wp6eUdSKF4rk8gSMk4CYAg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwATgK
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children: http://www.k12academics.com/standardized-testing/iq-tests/wechsler-intelligence-scale-children
Woodcock-Johnson Test for Cognitive Abilities: http://books.google.com/books?id=SU9-LSh4HgcC&pg=PT580&lpg=PT580&dq=history+of+Woodcock-Johnson+Tests+of+Cognitive+Abilities&source=bl&ots=pCTYLbsYpD&sig=1hgXGgQxXK5JAqG4Qdsxgp1Tc-o&hl=en&sa=X&ei=i6CeUYGKLpLc8wTqtoGoBA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwATgK
Stanford-Binet Test: http://www.assess.nelson.com/pdf/sb5-asb1.pdf
Raven's Progressive Matrices: http://books.google.com/books?id=sMSWbI23RMUC&pg=PA460&lpg=PA460&dq=history+of+Raven%E2%80%99s+Progressive+Matrices&source=bl&ots=PdMFYpWxFZ&sig=m8mhpRjYXYm03XBB0nyOzv-MrFc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Wp6eUdSKF4rk8gSMk4CYAg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwATgK
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children: http://www.k12academics.com/standardized-testing/iq-tests/wechsler-intelligence-scale-children
Woodcock-Johnson Test for Cognitive Abilities: http://books.google.com/books?id=SU9-LSh4HgcC&pg=PT580&lpg=PT580&dq=history+of+Woodcock-Johnson+Tests+of+Cognitive+Abilities&source=bl&ots=pCTYLbsYpD&sig=1hgXGgQxXK5JAqG4Qdsxgp1Tc-o&hl=en&sa=X&ei=i6CeUYGKLpLc8wTqtoGoBA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwATgK
Here are the links for online previews of two books mentioned in Dr. Droge's Intelligent Children: A Brief Introduction To What Today's Smart Parents Know About Increasing A Child's Intelligence:
Sternberg, Robert. J.. Beyond IQ: A Triarchic
Theory of Intelligence. Cambridge Cambridge University
Tizard,
Barbara and Martin Hughes. Young Children Learning. New York : Wiley, 2008.
http://books.google.com/books/about/Young_Children_Learning.html?id=T6nDYCVZjCoC
http://books.google.com/books/about/Young_Children_Learning.html?id=T6nDYCVZjCoC
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