In considering the nature of intelligence, experts would most likely agree that intelligence should be defined as a(n): |
D. multiple array of completely independent adaptive traits |
Factor analysis is a statistical procedure that can be used to: |
C. identify clusters of closely related test items |
Spearman's g factor refers to: |
B. a general intelligence that underlies successful perfomance on a wide variety of tasks |
Twenty-five-year old Alexandra is mentally handicapped and can neither read nor write. However, after hearing lengthy, unfamiliar, and complex musical selections just once, she can reproduce them precisely on the piano. It is likely that Alexandra is: |
D. someone with savant syndrome |
Those who define intelligence as academic aptitude are most likely to criticize: |
C. Gardner's concept of multiple intelligences |
Howard Gardner is most likely to agree that the concept of intelligence includes: |
B. spatially analyzing visual input |
When Professor McGuire asks her students to answer questions in class, she can quickly tell from their facial expressions whether they are happy to participate. Professor McGuire's perceptual skill best illustrates: |
C. emotional intelligence |
Generating multiple possible answers to a problem illustrates: |
D. divergent thinking |
As adults age, the size of their brains ________ and their nonverbal intelligence test scores _________. |
D. decrease; decrease |
Postmortem brain analyses reveal that highly educated people have ________ when they die than do their les educated counterparts. |
B. more synapses |
Research on intelligence and brain functioning indicates that highly intelligent children demonstrate ________ than their less intelligent counterparts. |
C. greater neural plasticity |
Precocious 12 to 14-year-old college students with unusually high levels of verbal intelligence are most likely to: |
A. retrieve information from memory at an unusually rapid speed |
Studies suggest that there is a positive correlation between intelligence and the brain's: |
C. neural processing speed |
Binet and Simon designed a test of intellectual abilities in order to: |
C. identify children likely to have difficulty learning in regular school classes |
To assess mental age, Binet and Simon measured children's: |
B. reasoning skills |
Five-year-old Wilbur performs on an intelligence test at a level characteristic of an average 4-year-old. Wilbur's mental age is: |
A. 4 |
The eugenics movement would have been most likely to encourage: |
A. selective breeding of highly intelligent people |
In the early twentieth century, the U.S. government developed intelligence tests to evaluate newly arriving immigrants. Poor test scores among immigrants who were not of Anglo-Saxan heritage were attributed by some psychologists of that day to: |
B. innate mental inferiority |
Tests designed to predict ability to learn new skills are called: |
D. aptitude tests |
Achievement tests are designed to: |
D. assess learned knowledge or skills |
The written exam for a driver's license would most likely be considered a(n) ________ test. |
A. achievement |
If a test is standardized, this means that: |
B. a person's test performance can be compared with that of a representative pretested group |
The distribution of intelligence test scores in the general population forms a bell-shaped pattern. This pattern is called a: |
D. normal curve |
It would be reasonable to suggest that the Flynn effect is due in part to: |
B. increasingly improved childhood health and nutrition |
If a test yields consistent results every time it is used, it has a high degree of: |
C. reliability |
A measure of intelligence based on head size is likely to have a ________ level of reliability and a ________ level of validity. |
C. high; low |
Your psychology professor has announced that the next test will asses your understanding of sensation and perception. When you receive the test, however, you find that very few questions actually relate to these topics. In this instance, you would be most concerned about the ________ of the test. |
D. validity |
Sasha is mildly mentally retarded. She has achieved the equivalent of a fifth-grade education and will soon begin vocational training so that she can earn a living. Sasha's intelligence scores is most likely between: |
D. 50 and 70 |
Sorting children into "gifted child" education programs is most likely to be criticized for: |
B. widening the achievement gap between higher and lower ability groups |
"Gifted child" programs can lead to ________ by implicitly labeling some students as "ungifted" and isolating them from an enriched educational environment. |
D. self-fulfilling prophecies |
The similarity between the intelligence test scores of identical twins raised apart is: |
D. greater than that between ordinary siblings reared together |
With increasing age, adopted children's intelligence test scores become ________ like their adoptive parents' scores and ________ similar to their biological parents' scores. |
D. less; more |
The heritability of intelligence refers to: |
C. the extent to which a group's intelligence is attributable to genetic factors |
The importance of environmental influences on intelligence is provided by evidence that: |
B. intellectual development of neglected children in impoverished environments is often retarded |
On average, the intelligence test scores of the Dingbats are much higher than those of the Dodes. The difference in the average test scores of the two groups might be a product of: |
D. any of the above |
Girls asre most likely to outperform boys in a(n): |
A. spelling bee |
Males are most likely to outnumber females in a class designed for high school students gifted in: |
C. mathematics |
Research on gender and emotional intelligence suggests that women are more skilled than men at: |
C. interpreting others' facial expressions of emotion |
Everyone would agree that intelliegence tests are "biased" in the sense that: |
A. test performance is influenced by cultural experiences |
Experts who defend intelligence tests against the charge of being culturally biased and discriminatory would be most likely to highlight the ________ of intelligence tests. |
C. predictive validity |
When completing a verbal aptitude test, members of an ethnic minority group are particularly likely to perform below their true ability levels if they believe that the test: |
C. is biased against members of their own ethnic group |
Jim, age 55, plays basketball with much younger adults and is concerned that his teammates might consider his age to be a detriment to their game outcome. His concern actually undermines his athletic performance. This best illustrates the impact of: |
D. stereotype threat |