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Rani, M. Usha; Prakash, Srinivasan – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2015
Intelligence involves the ability to think, solve problems, analyze situations, and understand social values, customs, and norms. Intelligence is a general mental capability that involves the ability to reason, plan, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. Intellectual ability involves comprehension, understanding, and learning…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Intelligence Differences, High School Students, Intellectual Disciplines
Pezzullo, Thomas R.; And Others – 1972
Heritability is defined as the proportion of a manifested trait's varience that is due to genetic variation. Sixty-five pairs of twins were employed to investigate the heritability of: (1) short term memory (Jensen's Level 1), operationalized using of modified "digit span" test; (2) the general intellective factor (Jensen's Level II),…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Compensatory Education, Genetics, Heredity
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Kennedy, Stephen P.; Suzuki, Nancy S. – American Educational Research Journal, 1977
Noun-pair learning in twelfth graders was assessed as a function of ethnicity, I.Q., and instructional conditions. Learners instructed to generate sentences performed better than control group learners. The relationship between instructional conditions and I.Q. was significant, but ethnicity was not. Spontaneous elaboration is discussed as a…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Ethnic Groups, High Schools, Intelligence Differences