So with continued use of drinking, kids performance level in school on tests will start to decline due to many effects that alcohol has on different regions of the brain. ... " However Tapert "For boys who engaged in heavy drinking during adolescence, we see poor performance on tests of attention . . .... A longitudinal study done in New Zealand shows that people who began smoking marijuana heavily in their teens lost an average of 8 IQ points between the ages of 13 and 38. ... However the adults that started smoking marijuana did not show a significant IQ drop compared to the teen...

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In fact, as early as 1882, the first systematic tests to explore sex differences were already being conducted by Francis Gatton at the South Kensington Museum in London. ... Wechsler, an American scientist who developed the IQ test most commonly used today, found out that 30 tests discriminated' in favor of one or the other sex. He tried to alter this discovery by cutting out some of the discriminating tests and changing them to female - slanted or male - slanted tests. ...

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In many cases, children have shown improved test scores on cognitive exams after interacting with music. In a study done in 1999, seventy-one four to six year-olds took tests before going into a music program, and after (Bilhartz 1). The children scored higher on the tests after receiving the music training. ... In the same study of kinder music affecting test scores in children, something else was realized. ... Groups who had the greatest sustained participation of parent scored highest on the tests (Bilhartz 4). ...

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More modern measurements demonstrated this correlation, showing that men's verbal IQ suffered by 20 percent when there was a stroke on the left side of the brain. ... Knowledge of these tests can be used to help us when we interact with others. ... This test further cements biological gender differences when it comes to certain preferences and opposes the idea that boys and girls only choose things, such as toys, based on social definitions of gender. ...

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Some studies also claim that students learning music along with academics tend to score better in standardized tests like SAT. ... This famous notion demonstrates that, when students are exposed to classical music, specifically to that of the Mozart piano sonata, enhances the points in the Stanford-Binet IQ test from eight to nine! ...

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A second test group did exercises to boost short-term memory, attention and mathematical and visual-spatial skills-functions typically targeted by commercial brain-training programs. ... And none of the groups showed evidence of improvement in cognitive skills that weren't specifically used in their tasks. (11) The outcome of this test shows how memory cannot be gained even when they have the resources to prove how the brain can only contain and uphold information learned to a certain extent. Because of this conclusion, the results from this test show that yes, intelligence and memory ca...

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These computer games were geared towards improving verbal comprehension, but participants experienced a number of "spillover effects" and their visual components of IQ went up.  ... Since I didn't push myself to focus while reading in my head, I often struggled in test taking positions when I wasn't given the luxury of reading aloud. ...

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