Lets say all a child sees is he** all of his life, basically everyday, up untill this child is old enough to move out...does it effect your iq?? Just wondering.
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Yes because your environment is what simulates the brain path ways to develope in early childhood. Also your surroundings can also turn on and off certain genes. For the best IQ a child needs to be raised in a healthy caring enviornment.
maybe
I don't think it effects the child's IQ - but more or less their behavior.
unless we are talking brain damage, no.
Absolutely. It can effect the way that the child learns on a daily basis, therefore effecting his/her IQ. I mean, if a child goes through hell everyday, do you really think that they are paying attention in school? Not to their full potential.
Probably not, I'm sure lots of Psycopaths had high IQs.
I don't think so but a bad childhood could inhibit a child's actions in life later on.
Let's start with the theory that there are at least 9 kinds of intelligence.
As the twig is bent, so grows the child.
Motivation is an enormous portion of learning. If a child's early experience harms his motivation, then it has this cumulative error / compound interest effect throughout his life.
If a child has bad experiences with parents or older siblings, it may be hard for him to relate to teachers or authority figures all during his life.
There have been some studies that suggest a correlation between emotional trauma and brain development. It's not a given, just something that has some possible connection.
The working theory is that the traumatizing event(s) pump your body full of nasty stress hormones and this affects the development/balance of your brain. It can affect adults just like children (like PTSD), but since children's brains are undeveloped stress/trauma can have a greater affect on children.
The short answer is yes a childhood trauma can affect your IQ. But, by the same token, becoming more positive and accepting that traumatic experience as something that just happened to you in the past can also improve your IQ.
Forgive yourself for carrying that baggage around, forgive whoever caused the trauma and move on to make yourself a better, stronger person because you can move above that. Put it in your past. Don't waste anymore energy thinking about it. You are here and now.
With time your positive attitude will improve your ability to learn and that is what the IQ intends to measure.
No, not unless the trauma included a head injury or other physical phenomenon that compromised brain function.
Yes it can. In the case of feral children there have been studies on what development of the human brain can have on such children whom have been mistreated: "When we look at the evidence from feral children and other cases of severe neglect on the ability of children to learn language and socialise, it should come as no surprise that the lack of effective nurture has a profound impact on the developing brain."
During the first three years of a child's brain development is the most crucial. At that point in time is when the neurons are rapidly growing. Children who have been deprived of such interactive human emotional contact and language, have been shown to lower intelligent than for children who were raised in a well supportive environment.
I don't know what all 'the experts' have to say about it. I don't place much of any weight on 'the expert opinion'.
But.
I can tell you that my own childhood, without going into detail, was plenty traumatic. I am a member of American Mensa today and didn't even have the capacity to realize until I was over 30 that I might have been 'blessed/cursed' with high IQ. points. The 'what-ifs' abound.
So, for what anecdotal evidence might be worth...there is mine.
Interpret it however you will.
Sort of.
Everyone has a potential IQ, and then an actual IQ. In order to reach your potential IQ, you have to have educational opportunities, and parents who encourage curiousity, etc. Therefore, people who are minorities, poor, or otherwise disadvantaged have lower IQ's. Not because they are not as smart, but because they didn't have the necessary lifestyle for the their brain to thrive.
Think of it like a flower. It always has the potential to be a flower, but if you don't water it or give it sunlight, it won't grow.
We are products of our environment and having h...l all during your growing up years can have a dramatic affect on you emotionally and physically ! I thought my name was a..e until I was 14 yrs old. So I can relate !! I am now 50+ and still carry "scars" !! It will be difficult to overcome and accept all this but you can overcome these adversities. Becoming an educated productive member of society can make all the "bad" times easier to accept/forget. Best of Luck and God Bless !
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