Unit 5 Part 2

If approached on the street by a stranger and asked to make a guess about their IQ score your best guess would be

100

People are said to have an intellectual disability if they have difficulty adapting to the demands of independent living and have IQ scores below

70

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

92

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

Which of the following is true of the mental similarities between adoptive children and their adoptive parents overtime?

Adoptive children become less similar to their adoptive parents overtime

Which of the following individuals would best represent our understanding of fluid versus crystallized intelligence

Alice is 25 and has discovered a new chemical element

Which of the following is true of boys compared to girls?

Boys are more likely to be represented among those scoring extremely low as well as those scoring extremely high on test of mental abilities

The most widely used modern intelligence test was developed by

David Wechsler

Which of the following best represents crystallized intelligence?

Grandpa Milt is good at crossword puzzles

The original formula for a childs intelligence quotient compares a childs

Mental age to his or her chronological age

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 then a biological category?

People of varying ancestry me categorize themselves as having the same race

What would be true of a thermometer that always reads 3° is lower than the actual temperature

Reliable but not valid

Which of the following is the best example of an aptitude test?

Sherjeel takes the ACT for college admission.

According to most experts, intelligence test or not biased because

The test to do a pretty good job of predicting what they are supposed to predict

There is a greater correlation between the IQ scores of identical twins raised together then for fraternal twins raised together. What conclusion can be drawn from this data?

There is a genetic effect on intelligence

If the scores on an intelligence test form a normal curve with a standard deviation of 15,

a and b only are true

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

adaptive ability

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

Heritability relates to the _____

extent to which variability among individuals intelligence scores can be attributed it to genetic variation

Charles Spearman's g refers to

general intelligence

According to Charles Spearman and others, ____________ underlies specific mental abilities and is measure by every task on an intelligence test.

general intelligence (g)

The Flynn effect refers to the:

gradual improvement in intelligence test scores 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

Which of the following is not a component of emotional intelligence?

inventing emotions

Achievement tests are to aptitude tests as:

measurement is to prediction

Which of the following does Robert Sternberg include as a type 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 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 scored 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 intelligence that can be attributed to genetics

What is the benefit of standardizing an intelligence test?

to provide a basis for comparing scores against a pretested group