Research Outline
Background and Topic
The cognitive ability (IQ) of an infant is defined by hereditary and ecological conditions starting from the prenatal time itself.
An individual’s intellect includes the capacity to think, prepare, solve challenges, think rationally, consider complicated concepts, learn easily and develop from observation.
Not just book writing, a limited analytical capacity, or intellect exam-taking. Rather, it represents a greater and deeper capacity to consider our environments – catch on, make sense of situations or find out what to do (Sternberg, 2019).
How environment and hereditary affect cognition?
Central Questions
How does the environment we live affect our intelligence quotient?
Do our genes affect our intelligence?
How the interaction between gene and environment affects the environment?
Previous Research
As in every other personality quality, intellect ranges from individual to individual. People vary in intelligence because of variations in their setting as well as in the genetic background.
Genetics play a much bigger role in intelligence as compared to the environment; intelligence heritability ranges from 0.30 to 0.75 (Makharia et al. 2016).
Researches on the impact of gene – ecological activity on cognition have found that hereditary and mutual environmental factors, as a result of socioeconomic class, shift in a reverse way.
Plato described knowledge as a facet that one is born with rather than gained through experience (White, 1976).
Rationale
There lacks sufficient data on the influencers of IQ among the developed countries, yet most of their environments are set quite developed socioeconomics.
The topic of gene and environment and how they affect intelligence is not a new topic as it has been central to previous studies.
There has been a huge gap between the intelligence level of children residing in developing countries and developed countries.
Methodology
Surveying method will be adopted in the study. Questions being the adopted tools in the random sampling of participants (students from developed countries, such as the US, China and France).
Findings
Father occupation, family income, physical activity and residence affect the level of intelligence.
Significance of the study
Improving the living standards in developing countries will aid in improving children IQ.
Works Cited
White, Nicholas P. Plato on knowledge and reality. Hackett Publishing, 1976.
Sternberg, Robert J., ed. Human intelligence: An introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Makharia, Archita, et al. “Effect of environmental factors on intelligence quotient of children.” Industrial psychiatry journal 25.2 (2016): 189.