Myer's AP Psychology: Unit 11 Review

Children are said to have an intellectual disability if they have difficulty adapting to the demands of independent living and have IQ scores below a. 60 b. 70 c. 80 d. 90 e. 100

b. 70

Which of the following is one of Robert Sternberg's types of intelligence? a. Naturalistic intelligence b. General intelligence c. Practical intelligence d. Savant intelligence e. Kinesthetic intelligence

e. Kinesthetic intelligence

Charles Spearman's g refers to a. General intelligence b. Grouped intelligence factors c. Genetic intelligence d. Generated creativity e. Generalized reliability

a. Genereal intelligence

What would be true of a thermometer that always reads three degrees off? a. It is valid but not reliable b. It is both reliable and valid c. It is neither reliable nor valid d. It is not valid, but you cannot determine if it is reliable from the information given e. It is reliable but not valid

a. It is valid but not reliable

The purpose of Alfred Binet's early intelligence test was to a. Predict how children would do in school b. Identify differences among ethnic and racial groups c. Help French graduates find the occupation in which they were most likely to succeed d. Establish the scientific definition of intelligence e. Facilitate "genetic breeding" experimens

a. 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 a. Predictive validity b. Split-half reliability c. Content validity d. Test-retest reliability e. Standard validity

a. Predictive validity

Achievement tests are to aptitude tests as a. Verbal performance is to spatial performance b. Elementary school skills are to secondary school skills c. Measurement is to prediction d. Reliability is to validity e. General intelligence is to multiple intelligence

b. Elementary school skills are to secondary school skills

The original formula for a child's intelligence quotient compared a child's a. Aptitude to his or her school performance b. Mental age to his or her chronological age c. Intelligence to his or her siblings' intelligence d. Intelligence to his or her parents' intelligence e. Math intelligence to his or her verbal intelligence

b. Mental age to his or her chronological age

Recent research about brain size and function suggests that a. The occipital lobe is more active when people are thinking about questions on intelligence tests b. People who are smarter use less energy when solving problems c. There is no correlation between processing speed and IQ scores d. People with larger brains are always smarter than those with smaller brains e. Subjects with larger parietal lobes tended to process information more slowly

b. People who are smarter use less energy when solving problems

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 a. The Flynn effect b. Savant syndrome c. Advanced mental age d. Wechsler syndrome e. Intelligence heritability

c. Advanced mental age

In general, males score higher than females on tests of a. Spelling b. Verbal fluency c. Emotion detection d. Spatial ability e. Sensitivity to touch, taste, and odor

c. Emotion detection

Heritability of intelligence refers to a. The extent to which a person's intelligence is caused by genetics b. The effect of adoption on the intelligence of adopted children c. The amount of group variation in intelligence that can attributed to genetics d. The extent to which the quality of schools and other environmental factors determine intelligence e. The correlation between intelligence test scores of identical twins

c. The amount of group variation in intelligence that can be attributed to genetics

The most widely used modern intelligence test was developed by a. Alfred Binet b. Louis Terman c. Robert Sternberg d. David Wechsler e. Howard Gardner

d. David Wechsler

The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions is called a. Interpersonal intelligence b. General intelligence c. Practical intelligence d. Emotional intelligence e. Adaptive intelligence

d. Emotional intelligence

The Flynn effect refers to the a. Superiority of certain racial and ethnic groups on intelligence tests b. Extreme scores (very high and very low scores) that are more common for males than females on math tests c. Stereotype threat that might cause more black students to underperform on standardized tests d. Predictive ability of intelligence tests e. Gradual improvement in intelligence test scores over the last several decades

e. Gradual improvement in intelligence test scores over the last several decades