Environment and intelligence | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: Subhajit Sahu
Date: 2019-01-20

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_and_intelligence


00:01:24 1 Neurological theory
00:04:34 2 Environmental influence
00:04:45 2.1 Sociocultural
00:04:55 2.1.1 Family
00:07:20 2.1.2 Peer group
00:08:52 2.1.3 Education
00:11:20 2.1.4 Training and interventions
00:15:11 2.1.5 Environmental enrichment
00:17:57 3 Biological influences
00:18:08 3.1 Nutrition
00:24:55 3.2 Stress
00:26:44 3.3 Maternal age
00:27:18 3.4 Exposure to toxic chemicals and other substances
00:33:08 3.5 Perinatal factors
00:34:47 4 Development of genius
00:38:00 5 Training
00:38:17 5.1 Musical
00:40:06 5.2 Chess
00:41:45 6 See also



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Environment and intelligence research investigates the impact of environment on intelligence. This is one of the most important factors in understanding human group differences in IQ test scores and other measures of cognitive ability. It is estimated that genes contribute about 20–40% of the variance in intelligence in childhood and about 80% in old age. Thus the environment and its interaction with genes account for a high proportion of the variation in intelligence seen in groups of young children, and for a small proportion of the variation observed in groups of mature adults. Historically, there has been great interest in the field of intelligence research to determine environmental influences on the development of cognitive functioning, in particular, fluid intelligence, as defined by its stabilization at 16 years of age. Despite the fact that intelligence stabilizes in early adulthood it is thought that genetic factors come to play more of a role in our intelligence during middle and old age and that the importance of the environment dissipates.