The Genetic‐Environmental Influences on Individual Cognitive Functioning or IQ |
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| Authors: | BR Singh |
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| Institution: | School of Education , University of Sunderland , Hammerton Hall, Gray Road, Sunderland, UK |
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| Abstract: | While some researchers place greater emphasis on heredity causes of individual differences in cognitive functioning, others place greater emphasis on cultural and environmental factors (broadly defined). Still others place greater stress on the dynamic interrelationship between the genetic components and the environmental components in accounting for individual cognitive functioning. The paper examines these views and concludes that intelligence is far more complex than hereditarians would admit and that although we may go along with the view that heredity could set the limit to cognitive development, it is not possible to tell what this limit is, if we define intelligence as a multifaCEDSd, multicausal phenomenon, which is partially malleable and capable of expression in many diverse ways. |
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