Psychology departmental exam pt 4

if intelligence were determined solely by heredity, the correlation of the IQ scores of identical twins would be

+1.00

Based on research studies of college students, what percentage of the students taking this exam could be expected to be suffering from some test anxiety?

40 percent

Ralph is a ten-year -old who has the mental age of an eight-year-old. According to the latest techniques for calculating IQ, what is Ralph's IQ?

Cannot be determined the information given

Roxanne performs poorly on most tests of verbal ability and does poorly in school, but she can perform many amazing mathematical computations in seconds and can play any song on the plan flute after hearing it only once. Roxanne provides evidence that supports which of the following?

Gardner's theory of multiple intelligence

Keala took a test to measure his potential for college success. Keala must have taken a ____ test.

aptitude

Delenn is interested in studying the human capacity to reason, remember, understand and solve problems. She plans to conduct various studies to better understand:

cognitive ability

Dr. Hans Zarkoffis testing groups of teenagers and senior citizens on their ability to imagine the rotation of objects in space. He finds that the teenagers perform much better than the seniors. Dr. Zarkoffinitially suspects that his results are due to the declining mental ability of the senior group, but then realizes that the teenagers have had more experience with video games. This is an example of a____effect.​ cohort ​mortality ​history ​testing

cohort

a test developer at Mal-Mart has created an honesty test for its applicants. after a year of using a test, the developer discovered that the test did not appear to be measuring honesty at all - it was measuring dependability. in other words, the honesty test appears to have low_______ validity

construct

Dr. Ciccone is developing a new test to measure readiness for college. Two questions on the test are "who was strawberry shortcake?" and " what is the fastest car to drive ?" on the basis of his information, we can conclude that Dr. Ciccone's test lacks

content validity

Karen developed a test to measure hostility within the work environment. Her test had a high correlation with employees who were terminated because of anger management issues. You could say that Karen's measure has a high degree of

criterion validity

Dana is excellent in Trivial Pursuit, a game that measures knowledge gained over a lifetime. Dana's success in Trivial Pursuit is a reflection of her _____ intelligence

crystallized

jimmy has trouble understanding what his mother is saying when she speaks to him. he also has trouble recalling the appropriate words to create sentences. jimmy is suffering from

dysphasia

if you obtained a high score on a test that measured basic powers of reasoning and problem solving where all the facts were supplied to you during the test, this would indicate that you have high _______ intelligence

fluid

Smedley has a theory that intelligence is rated to body temperature. He uses an oral thermometer to measure intelligence. His data most likely have

good reliability but poor validity

Meredith was in a head start program as a child. what was the most likely result?

her attitude toward school , her health, and academic skills improved

Alfred Binet developed his intelligence test to

identify children who needed special-education programs

as young adults grow older, their crystallized intelligence will _____ and their fluid intelligence will ___. however , after sixty-five years of age , their crystallized intelligence will ___ and their fluid intelligence will ____.

increase; remain stable; increase; decrease

Costanzo believes that he is a highly intelligent person because he has a "fast brain" and is always the first person to finish a test, as well as being able to pay attention to many things at once and think cognitively complex ways. Costanza's belief most likely theory of intelligence?

information- processing

you believe that elephants have intelligence and that this intelligence increases are elephants get older. you test your hypothesis by observing the behaviors of the same group of elephants at birth and then at five-year intervals. what type of study is this?

longitudinal

Galya is from Russia and is given an intelligence test when she arrives in the United States. If the administrator of the test is conscious of the fact that Galya is from another culture, the test will be composed of ____.​ easy vocabulary words ​spelling items ​pattern recognition items ​story problems

pattern recognition items

Paco takes a test that ask him to assemble blocks into patterns. he is most likely taking a ______ test.

performance

When Yanping entered college, she was unsure about which major to choose. She took a vocational interest test that indicated that she was highly analytic and should choose a math-based major. This spring she will graduate with honors with a mechanical engineering degree. The test Yanping took appears to have good ____validity.​ content ​split-half ​predictive ​concurrent

predictive

We have conducted the same experiment fifteen times, and each time we obtain the same results. We can conclude that our data are probably

reliable

which of the following examples lends strongest support to an environmental explanation of intelligence?

retarted children moved from institutions into adoptive homes have an average gain of 30 IQ points.

Dr. Yatvin administered his new intelligence test to a group of subjects and then compared each subject's score on the odd-numbered questions to their scores on the even-numbered questions. He found a large positive correlation between the odd and even scores, indicating the test has

split-half-reliability

Researchers are in the process of developing a new college entrance exam. They want to ensure that wherever the test is given, it will administered, scored, and interpreted in the same manner. in other words the researchers are concerned with

standardization

Deanna and Errol are nonidentical twins separated at birth and brought up in different households. their IQ scores are most likely

the same as any sibling reared apart

in a study , math-proficient women were randomly divided into two groups. the first group was told that men usually do better on the type of math test the women were about to take. the second group was not told anything. which outcome would you expect?

the second group did better than the first.

Jack has great difficulty reading, is a terrible speller, and has a really low high school grade-point average. however, jack possesses great "street smarts" and is able to talk his way out of any problems he encounters. which theory of intelligence takes jacks "street smart" into consideration?

triarchic

Unicorns have an average IQ score that is 10 points higher than centaurs. Given this information, what is the most accurate statement about the intelligence of a particular unicorn and a particular centaur?

we can't make conclusions about their intelligence