What determines intelligence in children?

Answer 1

Are you talking about how it is measured, or are you trying to predict the likelihood of intelligence of your offspring? I'll take a stab at answering the second.

Intelligence is not determined solely by genetics, but intelligent parents and other ancestors are obviously an advantage.

There are significant environmental factors that are not completely understood, but we do know a fair amount about it now. Nutrition and health care are the most obvious ones, especially prenatal care. If you want an intelligent child, limit your exposure to drugs (including alcohol and tobacco - yes, there's some reason to believe that they could effect your children), radiation, and chemicals that might be mutagens.

Then pick an intelligent mother and make sure she gets excellent food and health care during during the pregnancy, doesn't smoke, drink, use drugs, etc.

After the child is born, her verbal intelligence will increase significantly based on how frequently and positively you speak to her from birth on.

The socioeconomic status of the household in which the child is raised will effect her IQ, too - according to researcher Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, "Children from more well-off homes tend to experience parental attitudes that are more sensitive, more encouraging, less intrusive, and less detached--all of which, they found, tend to increase I.Q. and school readiness."

Middle-class families seem to have the right formula for child-rearing, according to various researchers today - at least, they're the ones who are getting the most press.

Another researcher, Martha Farah, built on Brooks-Gunn's work using neuroscientific tools, and said that the "parental nurturance" that middle-class parents are supposedly more likely to provide "stimulates the brain's medial temporal lobe, which in turn aids the development of memory skills."

Middle-class families practice "concerted cultivation" according to anthropologist Antoinette Lareau. "The parents in these families engaged their children in conversations as equals, treating them like apprentice adults and encouraging them to ask questions, challenge assumptions and negotiate rules." Working-class and poor families took a more traditional, authoritarian approach, which results in more polite children but doesn't give the kids the skills they need to navigate the world quite as well.

A fellow named Miles Storfer goes into far more detail in his book Intelligence and Giftedness, looking at specific child-rearing practices in Japanese, Jewish and other cultures and how they affect specific types of intelligence. For instance (and my copy of this book went walkabout a decade or so ago, so my memory may be faulty - I read it after I met him in 1990), he postulates that the Asian practice of tightly swaddling infants rather than permitting them to move as freely as western babies do may be connected to higher mathematical achievement.

Answer 2

It is believed that you can add the IQ of the father and the IQ of the mother and divide it by two, and you will come up with the IQ of the child.
That would mean if the father had an IQ of 140 and the mother had an IQ of 160, the child would have an IQ of 150.
There is no absolutes, but some studies have shown this.
I think it depends on the childs interest in learning.
No interest, No IQ. I have met some like that.
High interest, High IQ.

Answer 3

First of all, intelligence isn't the identical as schooling. A man or woman will also be very good knowledgeable and now not very smart, conversely a man or woman will also be very smart and now not very good knowledgeable. Intelligence has to do with how good the synaptic pathways within the mind engage, how good persons spot styles, how quick persons feel, their spacial attention, their hand-eye co-ordination and their capacity to specific their ideas. Education is approximately finding out, it has to do with tough paintings, consistent instruction and diligent research. A man or woman who has just a lowish IQ however works tough at finding out and applies themselves good and practises tough will have a extra positive lifestyles than a man or woman with a top IQ who's mentally or bodily lazy. There is the age ancient debate approximately nature vs nurture, how gigantic a function does genetics play in intelligence. I consider nature or genetics dictates the highest knowledge a man or woman can recognize while atmosphere or nurture determines what quantity of that theoretical highest is truthfully completed. That being mentioned there are a quantity of matters that may stimulate and increase a little one's growth. Reading to the little one from an overly younger age is totally major. When the little one is a bit of older say two years ancient, studying with the little one, drawing the little one's awareness to the shapes of letters and the sounds they make. Ensuring the little one's dietary demands are met, the mind just like the frame is not going to broaden safely if malnourished. Exposing the little one to as many specific languages as viable as early as viable is idea to stimulate the mind's linguistic centres to develop and the little one will have to discover it less difficult to prefer up languages. Making finding out amusing, include finding out as side of the little one's play. Playing plenty of specific forms of tune to the little one from an early age to support the little one distinguish notes will support the little one to be much less prone to be tone deaf and much more likely to be musically proficient. The main factor although is to be inventive and make finding out amusing. I wish those recommendations are useful, well good fortune.

Answer 4

Genetics to a great degree, good circumstances during gestation with a caring Mom, good care in early childhood with lots of stimulus and the ability to try to learn and develop. Parents or caregivers who pay attention to the child constantly and teach the child.

If you want the raise a smart child you have to start en vitro almost.

Answer 5

An...Intelligence...Test.

Answer 6

Genetics.

Coach

Answer 7

The father.

Answer 8

logic
spacial relations
memory