Sentences with phrase «intelligence testing showed»

Intelligence testing showed her to be of «average to above average» intelligence.

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Indeed, he found, the bilingual people in this group performed better than expected on intelligence tests at their advanced age, and showed less relative cognitive decline compared to monolingual people.

Studies have also shown that most of the common intelligence tests have a social class bias; the vocabulary and thought patterns used in them generally follow a middle class pattern, thus putting the socially and economically more privileged in a preferential position.

Often, this type of testing can reveal an underlying issue and even intelligence testing can show you how your child thinks and attempts to solve problems.

Pregnant or new mothers show the same intelligence level as others and perform equally on tests.

«Children from large families tend to make poorer showings on intelligence tests and on educational measures, even when social class is controlled.»

Overall IQ: Tests after 20 years show a small but significant (3.6 percent) advantage in overall intelligence (IQ) for the most fragile KMC babies (those with an abnormal or transient neurological exam at 6 months) compared to similar infants in the control group.

Studies have shown that breastfed infants do better on intelligence and behaviour tests into adulthood than formula - fed babies.

But aided by new tests that allow animals to show their smarts unhobbled by human preconception, scientists have discovered that there may be more similarities between human and animal intelligence than differences.

Identical twins show a correlation of about 0.88 on intelligence tests when they grow up together, and only slightly less when they grow up apart.

Conversely, IQ tests may show normal or superior intelligence, and standard language development compared with classical autism.

- presentation by one of the leading researchers in the field on what emotional intelligence is, the research behind it, what tests are showing relating to parental emotional intelligence and how that predicts children's emotional intelligence, and much more.

The results showed that the European - Americans performed about the same when told the study was a measure of their intelligence and the African - American students, primed by stereotype threat, performed significantly worse when told the test would measure intelligence.

If there is one intelligence, g, then g should support performance on all four tests, as shown in diagram A of Figure 1 (this page).

For parents of gifted students, or twice exceptional students, high - stakes tests are often seen as another notch in their student's belt to show intelligence.

In fact, your «white suburban moms» comment shows that you measure intelligence and the success of schools by test scores.

Despite their outward confidence, these same lawyers can also be ultrasensitive to criticism, and they may show lower «emotional intelligence» compared with the general public, personality tests have shown.

The study shows that specific personality traits are modestly but consistently correlated with intelligence test scores.

A consistent relationship has also been shown with delayed reading age, below average scores on intelligence and achievement tests, conduct disorder of childhood and parental aggressive behaviour.»

Although this important longitudinal study could not pinpoint all of the reasons for these fluctuations in IQ scores at different test occasions, the investigators did show that parenting practices were likely to be a significant influence on the children's intelligence growth patterns.

Research shows that students» beliefs about their own intelligence can affect engagement, motivation, and ultimately test scores and grades.

In a study by Sharp et al [23], only boys showed a decrease on standardized tests of intellectual attainment (mainly on indexes of abstract intelligence, reasoning about opposites and analogies) and the «draw - a-child» task.