We love technology around our house! We finally got the entire family switched over to iPhones!
Here is what I am reading today:
“Kids who score higher on IQ tests will, on average, go on to do better in conventional measures of success in life: academic achievement, economic success, even greater health, and longevity. Is that because they are more intelligent? Not necessarily. New research concludes that IQ scores are partly a measure of how motivated a child is to do well on the test. And harnessing that motivation might be as important to later success as so-called native intelligence.”
“Functional MRI images were obtained while current smokers, former smokers and never smokers performed tasks designed to assess specific cognitive skills that were reasoned to be important for smoking abstinence. These included a response inhibition task to assess impulse control and the ability to monitor one’s behavior and an attention task which assessed the ability to avoid distraction from smoking-related images, which tend to elicit an automatic attention response in smokers.”
“In a commentary article released ahead of the print version in the April 19, 2011 online issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, physicians affiliated with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and Duke University Medical Center cite data noting that in 2007 unintentional deaths due to prescription opioid pain killers were involved in more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine combined.”
“But men actually are more likely to utter those three loaded little words first, and men admit thinking about confessing love six weeks earlier than their female partners, according to an article to be published in the June issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.”
2 Comments
msengstock · April 26, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Reading “IQ and What it Measures” reminded me of when my track coach would say that doing well was only part skill and the rest was in your head. If you thought you were going to lose, there would be a good chance you would. To apply this concept to IQ testing seems almost natural.
I also found it interesting when they mentioned how it was once believed that IQ differed between ethnic groups because of genetic makeup. It would seem that there is enough evidence today, especially with globalization and the interaction of different ethnicities, that this kind of correlation wouldn’t even be considered.
Annadavis · April 27, 2011 at 8:36 pm
The iPhone is one of the best inventions ever. Our family is an iPhone family too! Have you checked out the “Grocery IQ” app? When I need something from the market, COSTCO, Home Depot (or whichever other store I want to create a shopping list for) I add it and it shows up on my husband’s phone too. That way, whoever is at that store can check the list. Here are two other apps that I use often:
“Readdle Docs” is a handy tool for keeping documents (including excel files) in your iPhone.
“GasBuddy” is good for checking out the latest gas prices in your area.
I found the article on IQ somewhat comforting. My godchild John, was tested earlier this year and got an IQ test score of 148. He is a 7 year-old African-American boy. Early on, we noticed John’s intellectual abilities but the ‘system’ refused to test him before he turned 6 years old (he lives in Nevada). It is a gratifying and exciting experience watching him absorb information the way he does. I have often worry that making a big deal over how much he knows or learns is turning him into a performer that doesn’t feel comfortable if people aren’t ‘ooing’ and ‘awing’ over him. I know that the positive attention he gets every time he says something amazing (for example, he knew the entire solar system and could name all the U.S. states and their capital cities by age 4) is reinforcing the behavior and frankly, I don’t like it! I hope that with age he’ll learn to feel appreciated and loved even if he isn’t impressing the world with all that he can learn. 8-(
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