FLYNNOV EFEKT – MEĐUGENERACIJSKI PORAST REZULTATA NA TESTOVIMA INTELIGENCIJE
THE FLYNN EFFECT – CROSS-GENERATIONAL GAINS ON INTELLIGENCE TEST SCORES

Summary/Abstract: James Flynn, a political scientist from the University of Otago, New Zealand, analyzed intelligence test scores from industrially developed countries and concluded that there were cross-generational gains on the scores of every conducted test. The population gain was named the Flynn effect. The cross-generational gains were higher on fluid intelligence tests than on crystallized intelligence tests. The explanatory contextual factors for the Flynn effect can be biological, psychological and sociological.Understanding the Flynn effect enriches our knowledge of the nature of intelligence, especially about the role the interaction between genetic and environmental factors plays in the ontogenetic development of intelligence. In this paper we present some of the most prominent explanations of the Flynn effect.

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