Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you were raised with different parents or in a different school? Well… The ability to know whether heredity or environment affect the development of intelligence more is a subject that is more than just hard to be able to pinpoint. The problem with trying to separate the roles of genes from that of the environment is that controlled, perfect experiments are neither practical nor ethical (Ciccarelli and White, 2015, p 281). An example given from the book went into explaining the difference between twins when raised together or raised separately. Twins are often raised together but the smaller fraction of twins that are raised separate more often than not have similar IQ scores. However, they will still typically match closer to their adoptive parents than birth parents for the environmental influences. However, environmental influences tend to be less important over time. Heredity tends to be more of a factor for the development of intelligence than the environment.
A stereotype threat is an idea that our behavior worsens when we are reminded of a negative stereotype about us. Because of stereotype threat, students are reminded of a negative stereotype and are often more likely to perform worse, especially if that stereotype is one that makes them feel inferior. You have the choice to ignore the stereotypes and prove those people and their stereotypes were wrong. However too often people allow the stereotype to get to their heads. They allow other people to let them play worse than they would have without the negative stereotypes floating around.
Annie Duke was involved in a male dominant sport. She would sit down at the poker table with all other men, and take all the wrong things the men would say to her or about her. If anyone was was subject to stereotype threat it was her. In the podcast, she describes