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This 12 page paper discusses the pros and cons of the debates surrounding birth order and intelligence, cognitive ability and family size. Findings, case studies, arguments outlined and exampled. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Family life? All of these answers offer a logical argument, but many researchers still claim that the order in which one is born has a larger bearing on the cognitive
ability that a person has, moreso than any of these other influences. Still, the larger scientific community is not completely convinced. Does birth order really figure in to the overall
cognitive potential of an individual? This question of intelligence and its correlation to birth order is not a new question. As early as the seventies there were studies being done.
One particular study carried out in the Netherlands by researchers Belmont and Marolla(Ceci 2001). An IQ test was given to male students who turned nineteen. Their findings showed that first-born
children scored higher on the tests and that there was a high correlation to size of family and IQ. The larger the family the lower they scored(Ceci 2001). A
few years later another study was done, which incorporated the information from the Belmont and Marolla tests. What Zajonc and Markus hoped to determine was how birth order negatively affected
intelligence. This test was called the confluence theory". What they discovered was that there may be more variables than earlier researchers had at first considered. The distance between births seemed
to make a significant difference as well as the gender of the children. Theirs was an unusual study in that the researchers never came into contact with any subjects, never
observed any subjects, and never asked subjects to do anything. In fact, one might say that they did not even have subjects. Instead, they applied their theory to a set
of data that had been gathered and published by other researchers; or perhaps more correctly, they applied the other researchers data to their theory. The researchers determined that children would
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