Child psychology?

A intervention study was conducted on a group of 20 under-privileged children to see if environmental enrichment would improvr their intelligence levels. At the age of three years, the children who were all from impoverished and overcrowded homes, began the intervention program, attending a special non-residential day school in which particual emphasis was placed on the develpment of social and cognitive skils. The children attended the school for 4days a week untill they began infant school.

a) What is the hypothesis of this experiment?
b) What is the independent variable?
c) What is the dependent variable?

Answer:
a.) The hypothesis would be under privileged youth would have higher intelligence if exposed to a richer environment (ie emphasis placed on social & cognitive skills,special school,etc.)

b.)independent variable is the situation that's controlled (ie all being under privileged children, the age group, attending special school, focusing on certain skills)

c)the dependent variable can't be controlled (ie the mental capacity of the child or it's willingness to be involved, etc.). The dependent variable changes when the controlled circumstances change.

I personally don't agree completely with the hypothesis because the problem concerning the intelligence of the poor isn't as cut & dry as social & cognitive skills. If their homes are overcrowded to begin with those 2 skills are usually higher than those with only the parents & 1 or 2 other children because they tend to pick up those skills faster by the constant interactions with others. From personal experience I've seen a lot of poor children with mental abilities affected mainly by poor nutrition/malnutrition & more exposure to metals such as lead poisioning because if you'll notice most towns with homes the poor can afford to live in are close to factories, contaminated creeks, localized flooding during strong rain storms, etc. Sadly to say even most HUD approved housing is in that area as well. All HUD does is warn you. Rarely will they let you move, penalize the home owner for it or make them fix it.

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