NAATI真题题库资料(二)

NAATI真题题库资料(二)

NAATI真题题库资料（二）

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There is a theory that there is no such things as intelligence, that IQ tests are weapons of racism and repression, and that the social environment determines all.

That theory will be seriously challenged this week when psychologists and geneticists gather in Sydney for the 23rd annual conference of the BGA, an association which was formed when psychologists began to ask whether similar behavior among family members could be due to genetic rather than social factors.

Some of the most exciting research in the field comes from Con Stough from Auckland University, who has managed to reduce the concept of intelligence to a simple matter of nerves, chemicals, lights, buttons, lines and sounds.

Stough says the view that intelligence has its basis in biology fits in well with the theory that it is largely genetically determined. Various programs in the US have tried to improve children’s intelligence by improving their environment, but most have been failures.”Most of our intelligence is settled within the first year of life”, he says.

However, there are other views. American researchers believe that our genes determine the potential for intelligence rather than intelligence itself, and, given the right environment, we can fulfill this potential.

AS usual, the conference will see plenty of talk about rodents. It brings you down to earth to realize that we need to watch rats when we want to understand humans.

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有一种理论认为，世界上没有智力这种东西，又认为智商测试不过是种族主义和镇压的武器，决定一切的是社会环境。

本周，心理学和遗传学家们将汇聚在悉尼，参加BGA组织第23接年会，该协会在由心理学家提出家庭成员中相似的行为是否是基因而不是社会环境造成的这一情况下形成的。届时，上述理论将受到严峻的质疑。

NAATI真题题库资料(二)

在这个领域里某个最令人兴奋的研究结果是来自奥克兰大学（Auckland University）的康·司托夫（Con Stough），他已经成功将智力的概念简化成由神经、化学物质、光线、按钮、线条和声音所组成的简单事物。

司托夫说，认为智力有其以生物为基础这一观点与那种认为智力主要由基因所决定的理论非常吻合。美国的各种教育计划试图通过改善孩子们的环境去提高他们的智力，但是大多数失败了。他说：“我们的智力的大部分在生命的第一年已经定型了。”

然而，也有其他的观点。美国研究人员认为，是我们的基因决定了的是智力的潜力而不是决定智力本身，如果有适当的环境，我们可以充分发挥这种潜力。

和往常一样，本次会议将对啮齿动物进行大量讨论。这使我们回到现实，意识到当我们想了解人类，那我们还得去观察老鼠。