Looking for more ways of enhancing your child’s IQ? All this week we’ve featured information on ways for parents to help enhance their\u00a0child’s\u00a0IQ from information found in a meta-analysis study conducted at New York University. \u00a0What’s the next tip the study\u00a0recommends,\u00a0having your child attend preschool!<\/p>\n
Preschool offers novel stimuli, and opportunities to practise problem solving and navigate social interactions \u2013 activities that may increase underlying intelligence. \u201cWhat seems to be happening is that the child\u2019s intelligence seems to be adapting to the new demands placed on it.\u201d Preschools that focus on language development are even more successful, showing gains of more than four IQ points. It\u2019s possible that these gains are due to kids being exposed to the kinds of things that get tested. \u201cYoung children cannot define a word that they have not encountered, nor can they identify a picture of an item that they have never seen. Therefore, preschool may raise intelligence test performance merely by exposing young children to the information and vocabulary works included on these tests,\u201d says study author\u00a0John Protzko.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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