Psyc unit 11
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
