EPPP Psychology

Category - Cognitive-Affective Bases of Behavior

Arthur Jensen claimed that roughly eighty percent of human intelligence was the result of heredity and that environmental influence was responsible for the remaining twenty percent. Which environmental factor did he believe was most influential on intelligence?
  1. Socioeconomic conditions
  2. Prenatal care
  3. Family upbringing
  4. Gender differences
Explanation
Answer: B - Jensen believed that prenatal factors were the most influential environmental factors of intelligence. He also studied the influence of race on intelligence and presented highly disputed claims about the connection between the two.
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