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Implications of the Flynn Effect
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| In the military if you scored high on the IQ tests you will get desk jobs if low IQ you will fight |
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Implications of Flynn Effect
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| Kids might not get the help they need if they are scoring higher simply because the test aren't normed correctly. |
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Implications of Flynn Effect
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| People who are mentally retarded can't be sentenced to the death penalty so it is important that the tests are normed accurately and that people are not testing higher who are really mentally retarded. |
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Implication of the Flynn Effect
(Social Security)
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| People get social security checks if they are mentally retarded but they won't get them if they got a high score on an IQ test because its old and not correctly normed. |
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| Overall Implications of Flynn Effect |
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Definition
| You have to use up-to-date tests to give all of the groups (military, kids, adults and soc. security) fair treatment. Below 70 is mentally retarded. This means that its the test you take that affects your IQ, not whether or not you're actually intelligent or not. |
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| Every 20 years IQ tests will get re-normed but that amount of years seems arbitrary depending on when the child actually gets the test. |
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| Are children today more arrogant? |
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| A study wanted to know whether children today thought they were smarter and better than their parents but in actuality we are not becoming more narcissistic. |
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| Sum of the different things that control the presense of a disease |
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1. Direct Cause
(4 ways personality predicts health and longevity) |
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Personality-Illness
Ex. Neuroticism represents autonomic sensitivity to stressors(increased blood pressure), then neurotic people might be more likely to develop hypertension. |
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2. Third Variable
(4 ways personality predicts health and longevity) |
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Definition
| Same biological cause could underlie both the trait and the outcome. Ex. If you have a gene that increases dopamine activity you may be at an increased risk for Parkinson's disease. |
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3. Personality leads to behaviors that affect Health
(4 ways personality predicts health and longevity) |
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| People with different personalities might have different desires to engage in danger or unhealthy stuff, or to be healthy and practice preventative behaviors. Conscientious people are more healthy and live longer. |
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Illness Causes Personality
(4 ways personality predicts health and longevity) |
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| Some illnesses require more care, which could lead to OCD type behaviors. You could become more conscientious. Some illnesses (cancer) can drain a person's energy and they could become pessimistic about their lives etc. |
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| Conscientious people lived significantly longer. Probably because they take preventative measures, go to the doctor. Even after controlling for drinking and smoking they still lived longer. |
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| Low Conscientiousness and Parental Divorce |
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| People whose parents divorced during their childhood are more likely to die. Some reasons for this include that this is added stress on the child and can have an effect on the child's mental health. There is still questions about the other causes of this. |
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Definition
| Psychosocial factors can effect things other than whether a person drinks and smokes including exercise patterns, diet, medication regimens etc. |
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| How does neuroticism relate to different health issues? |
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Definition
| There have been mixed results in longevity and neuroticisim. It is also harder to measure neuroticism in general. |
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| Is there something tied to being elderly? |
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| Low neuroticism increased risk for death in the elderly. High extraverted elderly people had decreased risk of death. (When controlled for physical and social activity, these effects went away.) |
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The Famous Nun Study
Low vs. High Positive Emotion |
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| The nuns who used more positive words and were overall more positive were more likely to have survived by the age 80 checkpoint. |
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| A biological term for stress |
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| Cognitive Epidemiological |
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Definition
| This is how intelligence relates to death and dying. |
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| More people with high IQ than those with lower IQs. This could be because they are smart enough not to walk out into oncoming traffic. Their brains and bodies could be put together better. |
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| Gender Differences in Cognitive Epidemiology |
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Definition
| Men didn't show the low vs. high IQ in death in the beginning because of World War II. War kills regardless of how smart you are. |
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Definition
| IQ is a proxy for SES because if you are poor then you will die sooner. This is probably due to the lack of good health care, not being able to afford medicines etc. |
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| Childhood IQ as predictor of healthy behavior |
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Definition
| This says that they adopt healthy eating habits, are smart about alcohol consumption etc. |
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| Childhood IQ as record of bodily insult |
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| This says that a child's IQ might be lower because of something that happened to them as a fetus in the womb, if they were dropped on their heads as baby etc. Basically if their development didn't go as planned. |
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| Childhood IQ as a system of integrity |
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Definition
| Basically the watershed model again. Different parts lead to one big stream. IQ is sort of the measure of how many mutations you have at the gene level. |
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| Does IQ-death relation only effect old people or really low IQ people? |
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| No, IQ effects deaths that happen as accidents as well as suicides. |
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| The importance of Education |
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Definition
| Education is important for all causes of death |
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| Protective effects of intelligence only happen at certain SES Levels |
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