The researchers from Pennsylvania revealed that a high IQ score needed high intelligence as well as high motivation but low IQ score could be the outcome of lack of either aspect. The tests of intelligence are as much a gauge of inspiration as they are of intellectual aptitude.
It was also revealed that inducements could increase the score of IQ by a perceptible margin. The research team from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, evaluated earlier studies on how material inducements affected the performance of more than two thousand people in intelligence tests. They found that inducements increased all IQ scores.
However, these were increased particularly in those who were with lower baseline IQ scores. Then the same team analyzed how motivation impacted on the results of IQ tests and also on prophecies of intelligence and performance in later life. The team used the statistics of long term study of two hundred and fifty boys from teenage to early adulthood.
The team was capable to wrap up that some individuals try harder than others in conditions where the stakes are low. So the study states that relying on IQ scores as gauge of intelligence can overrate the prognostic legality of intelligence.
To get high score in IQ test needs high intelligence as well as competitive tendencies for motivating the test-taker to perform to the best of their ability. According to Dr James Thompson, senior honorary lecturer in psychology at University College London, it had always been recognized that IQ test results are a amalgamation of innate ability and other variables.