While research suggests a positive correlation between IQ and academic achievement (Murray, 2008), factors like motivation, study skills, and socioeconomic background also play a significant role.

Intelligence has always been tricky to quantify, not least because it seems to involve most of the brain and so is almost certainly not one "thing". Even so, scores across different kinds of IQ tests have long shown that people who do particularly well—or badly—on one seem to do similarly on all. This can be crunched into a single general intelligence factor, or “g”, which correlates pretty well with academic success, income, health and lifespan. So more intelligence is clearly a good thing, but where does it come from? A large part of the answer seems to be genetics. In 1990, the first twin studies showed that the IQ scores of identical twins raised apart are more similar to each other than those of non-identical twins raised together. Since then a few genes have been linked to IQ, but all of them scent to have a tiny effect and there are probably thousands of genes involved.That doesnt mean the environment plays no part, at least in childhood. While the brain is developing, everything from diet to education and stimulation plays a huge part in developing the brain structures needed for intelligent thought. Children with a bad diet never fulfill their genetic potential.The word "those" in paragraph 2 refers to .............

Having mental intelligence (a high IQ) is all one needs to create great success in college and in life.Group of answer choicesTrueFalse

What is a benefit of high self-esteem? Better grades in school Increased attractiveness Increased IQ Happiness

Chris Langan's story illustrates that:Question 3Select one:a.children raised in one-parent households tend to have higher IQsb.intelligence is more important than socializationc.socialization can be more important than intelligenced.neither socialization nor intelligence affects college admissions

Intelligence tests are valid in the sense that they correlate highly with: success in life creativity success in school all of the above