ap psych 60-64
If approached on the street by a stranger and asked to make a guess about their IQ score, your best guess would be
100
Hal scored an 89 on an intelligence test when he was 16. Now, at age 56, he is interested in what his score would be as an adult. The score he is most likely to earn on the new test would be
129
People are said to have an intellectual disability if they difficulty adapting to the demands of independent living and have IQ scores below
70
Which of the following is a longitudinal study?
A group of kindergartners is given an intelligence test. They are retested every other year for 30 years.
Intellectual disability is defined by both IQ and which of the following?
Adaptive ability
Which of the following is true of the mental similarities between adoptive children and their adoptive parents over time?
Adoptive children become much less similar to their adoptive parents over time
The most widely used modern intelligence test was developed by
Alfred Binet
Which of the following is true of boys compared with girls?
Boys are more likely to be represented among those scoring extremely low as well as those scoring extremely high on tests of mental abilities
Which of the following best represents crystallized intelligence?
Grandpa Milt is good at crossword puzzles
Which of the following is not a component of emotional intelligence?
Inventing emotions
What would be true of a thermometer that always reads three degrees lower than the actual temperature?
It is reliable but not valid
Which of the following individuals would best represent our understanding of fluid versus crystallized intelligence?
James is 80 and has just solved a math equation that has been puzzling him for the last 40 years
Which of the following can be used to demonstrate that only about 2 percent of the population scores at least two standard deviations above the mean on an intelligence test?
Normal curve
Which of the following provides the best evidence that race is more of a social construct than a biological category?
People of varying ancestry may categorize themselves as having the same race
Which of the following is the best example of an aptitude test?
Sherjeel takes the ACT for college admission
There is greater correlation between the IQ scores of identical twins raised together than for the fraternal twins raised together. What conclusion can be drawn from this data?
There is no significant hereditary contribution to intelligence
If the scores on an intelligence test form a normal curve with a standard deviation of 15,
a and b only are true
An intelligence test that asks a person how many uses they can think of for a golf ball is most likely testing a person's _____ intelligence.
creative
If Lanie is able to tell when her husband is upset by noticing subtle changes in his facial expressions, she might be said to have a high degree of
emotional intelligence
According to Charles Spearman and others, ______ underlies specific mental abilities and is measured by every task on an intelligence test.
general intelligence
Charles Spearman's g refers to
general intelligence
The Flynn effect refers to the
gradual increase in average intelligence score of the general population over the last several decades
Researchers studying the effects of genes on intelligence have found that
intelligence is affected by many genes working together
According to Carol Dweck, students are often hampered by a "fixed mindset." This means they believe
intelligence is biologically set and unchangeable
Achievement tests are to aptitude tests as
measurement is to prediction
The original formula for a child's intelligence quotient compared to a child's
mental age to his or her chronological age
Heritability relates to the
percentage of a person's intelligence that is due to genetics
Which of the following is one of Robert Sternberg's types of intelligence?
practical intelligence
The purpose of Alfred Binet's early intelligence test was to
predict how children would do in school
Students who do well on college entrance exams generally do well in their first year of college. This helps establish that these exams have
predictive validity
If a test yields consistent results upon retesting, it can be said to have a high degree of
reliability
Howard Gardner found evidence of multiple intelligences in individuals who scored low on intelligence but had an area of exceptional ability- for example, to make complex calculations. These people have
savant syndrome
Victor is blind, unable to speak, and understands very few words. He is however, able to hear a piece of music once and play it back flawlessly on the piano. Victor's abilities best represent someone with
savant syndrome
A test developer defines uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group. Which of the following best describes this process?
standardization
Heritability of intelligence refers to
the amount of group variation in the intelligence that can be attributed to genetics
According to most experts, intelligence tests are not biased because
the tests do a pretty good job of predicting what they are supposed to predict
What is the benefit of standardizing an intelligence test?
to provide a basis for comparing scores against a pretested group
