Psyc unit 11

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Children are said to have an intellectual disability if they have 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 kindergarteners is given an intelligence test. They are retested ever other year for 30 years

Intellectual disability is defined both by IQ and which of the following

Adaptive ability

Which of the following is true of mental similarities between adoptive children and their adoptive parents as they age

Adoptive children become much less similar to their adoptive families over time

Which of the following is true of boys compared with the girls

Boys are likely to have extremely low intelligence scores

The most widely used modern intelligence test was developed by

David Wechsler

The ability to perceive understand manage and use emotions it's called

Emotional intelligence

Right ability relates to the

Extent to which Variability among individuals intelligent scores can be attribute it to genetic variation

Charles Spearman's little G refers to

General intelligence

according to Charles Spearman and others, which of the following under lies specific mental abilities and is measured by every task on an intelligence test?

General intelligence

The front affect refers to the

Gradual improvement and intelligent test scores over the last several decades

Which of the following best represents crystallized intelligence

Grandpa Milt is good at crossword puzzles

according to Carl Dweck students are often hampered by a fixed mindset this means they believe

Intelligence is biologically set an unchangeable

Which of the following is not a component of emotional intelligence

Inventing emotions

What would be true of a thermometer that always reads 3° off

It is reliable but not valid

Who conducted a famous study of high IQ children

Lewis Terman

Which of the following provides the best evidence that race is more of a social construct then a biological category

People of varying ancestry my categorized themselves in the same race

Recent research about brain size and function suggests that

People who are smarter use less energy when solving problems

Which of the following is one of Robert Sternberg types of intelligence

Practical intelligence

students who do well on college entrance exams generally do well in the first year of college. This helps establish that these exams have

Predictive validity

Of the following which term best describes the condition in which a person of the limited mental ability excels at a specific skills such as computation

Savant syndrome

A test developer defines uniform testing procedures in meaningful Scores by comparison with the performance of a pretest a group. Which of the following best describes this process

Standardization

heredibility of intelligence refers to

The amount of group variation in 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

The correlation between the IQ scores of fraternal twins Raised together is lower than IQ scores of identical twins raised together. What conclusion can be drawn from this data

There is a genetic effect on intelligence

according to Robert Sternberg what kind of intelligence is assessed by traditional intelligence tests?

analytical

achievement tests are To aptitude test as

measurement is to prediction

The original formula for a child intelligence quotient compared a child's

mental age to his or her chronological age

Which of the following can be used to demonstrate that only about 2% of the population scores are at least two standard deviation about the mean on an intelligence test

normal curve

The purpose of Alfred Binet's early intelligence test was to

predict how children would do in school

Which of the following best describes the extent to which a test yields consistent results upon

reliability

Howard gardener found evidence of multiple intelligences and individuals who score low on intelligence but had an Area of exceptional ability for example to make complex calculations. These people have

savant syndrome

In general, males score higher than females on tests of

spatial ability


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