Friday, March 2, 2012

GENOME: Chromosome 6: Intelligence

In this chapter, Ridley discusses the "intelligence gene" and how it doesn't work in a conditioned area. The "gene" needs to work in an environment that stimulates the gene to work. For example, a person's intelligence becomes more expressive as they grow older because they get to choose where they live, what they do, and how they do what they do everyday, they choose their comfort zones therefore promoting these very genes to be more expressive. In class, Ms. Malonek discussed how each person has a different way of gaining intelligence or understanding things. Some people are hands-on learners, visual learners, musical learners, athletic learners, step-by-step learners, etc. If a person who learns best visually is forced to learn kinesthetically, then the person won't learn, it would just go in one ear and out the other.


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http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1317&bih=779&tbm=isch&tbnid=3S-BAEOl2UPHyM:&imgrefurl=http://singularityhub.com/2010/04/22/gene-for-intelligence-revealed-by-studying-williams-syndrome/&docid=YslBKFCcoY7T8M&imgurl=http://singularityhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/intelligence-gene-williams-syndrome.jpg&w=239&h=177&ei=ebxRT_XZMuvTiAKSxK23Bg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=219&vpy=178&dur=746&hovh=141&hovw=191&tx=86&ty=71&sig=109484771088206764939&page=1&tbnh=138&tbnw=188&start=0&ndsp=24&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0

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