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1 Scottish Mental Survey 1932 Deary et al. (2004) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 130-147.

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3 Scottish Mental Survey of 1932 June 1st 1932: almost all Scottish children born in 1921 N = 87,498 Scottish Council for Research in Education Godfrey Thomson’s Moray House Test No. 12 IQ-type: verbal, spatial, numerical, abstract Deary et al. (2004) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 130-147.

4 Health and intelligence (Schacter pp. 347-348) Mortality Illness Health Health behaviours Whalley & Deary (2001) British Medical Journal, 322 (7 April), 1-5. Deary (2008) Nature, 456, 175-176.

5 Whalley & Deary (2001) British Medical Journal, 322 (7 April), 1-5.

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7 Intelligence: Stability and development Children –IQ at ages 6 and 18, r =.77 –IQ at ages 12 and 18, r =.89 Adults (Concordia study) –World War II veterans tested 40 years on –Verbal IQ factor at ages 25 and 65, r =.93 –Non-verbal IQ at ages 25 and 65, r =.64 Children to adults (Scottish Mental Survey)…

8 Scottish Mental Survey of 1932 June 1st 1932: almost all Scottish children born in 1921 N = 87,498 Scottish Council for Research in Education Godfrey Thomson’s Moray House Test No. 12 IQ-type: verbal, spatial, numerical, abstract Traced and re-tested 550 in Edinburgh as Lothian Birth Cohort 1921 Deary et al. (2004) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 130-147.

9 Scottish Mental Survey 1932 Deary et al. (2004) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 130-147.

10 Age 11 Moray House Test Age 79 Moray House Test correlation =.66 (N = 485)

11 Deary et al. (2004) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 130-147.

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13 Sex differences in intelligence?

14 Scottish Mental Survey 1932 Average IQ Boys (40,033) Girls (39,343) 100.5100.6 Deary et al. (2003). Intelligence, 31, 533-542. Read up on group differences section in Schacter book, pp. 360-362.

15 Deary et al. (2003). Intelligence, 31, 533-542.

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