Chapter 8 - Cognitive Ability (Test Your Knowledge)

Research on intelligence has established that __________________.

environmental factors can improve or impair intelligence test performance

Eugene, 77 years old, is retired now, but he has worked on daily crossword puzzles since he was a teenager. He no longer finishes the puzzles as quickly as he used to, but can complete more difficult puzzles. Eugene's puzzle performance reflects the fact that his _____ intelligence has remained relatively intact.

fluid

Mrs. Linder, a high school teacher, believes that students who are good at math will also be good in English, history, and music. Mrs. Linder's belief best supports which concept of intelligence?

g

Today, your IQ score would be determined by

how much your score deviates from others of the same age

Binet's intelligence test was developed to _____________.

identify children who needed special educational programs

Dr. Armstrong is conducting an experiment on the possible effects of stereotype threat on women's math test performance. Which of the following independent variables would Dr. Armstrong manipulate in his experiment?

information about alleged sex differences in math ability

Rowena is mildly intellectually disabled, but she is attending regular classes at a public school. Rowena most likely ____________ and she will __________ from being mainstreamed.

knows fewer facts about he world than others; benefit

There are two sets of twins in the Mullis family. Louise and Lanie are identical twins. Andy and Adrian are not. According to research on heredity and intelligence, which pair of twins is likely to show the most similarity in IQs?

Louise and Lanie, because they are identical twins

Betsey took an intelligence test that included items requiring her to say what she would do if she were stranded in a large city with no money and how she would teach music to children who had no musical instruments. This test was most likely based on _____________.

Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence

Research shows that today's standardized tests _______________.

are not correlated with performance on "real-life" tasks

Your cousin Alix is enrolled in a preschool program for "at-risk" children designed to enrich his learning environment. Based on research on programs such as Project Home Start, you tell his parents that the program will most likely positively influence Alix's _________________, but might have little or no influence on his _____________ in the long-term.

attitudes toward school; IQ

If the influence of heredity and environment on differences in intelligence are about equal, it would mean that_____________

both b and c are correct

People whose scores on intelligence tests identify them as gifted are more often

more successful than the average person

___________ is an important environmental influence on children's IQ score.

parents socioeconomic status and parent's support for children's motivation to succeed in school

Differences in the average IQ scores of various ethnic groups

reflect both genetic and environmental factors

Jonah's parents are told that their son has an IQ of 100. According to the intelligence test scoring method used today. this means that Jonah __________.

scored higher than half the children in his age group

When Jerrica first took the Handy Dandy Intelligence test, her score was 140. When she took the same test six weeks later, her score was only 102. If other people showed similarly changing score patterns, the Handy Dandy Intelligence test would appear to lack ___________.

statistical reliability

Like all other applicants to medical school, Lavinia took the MCAT admission test. Later, researchers compared all the successful applicants' medical school grades with their MCAT scores. The researchers were obviously trying to measure the MCAT's ______________.

statistical validity

Paul has a terrible time with academic exams, but he is a great dance and a highly skilled mechanic who can take apart, repair, and fix almost anything. The ___________ approach would be most likely to label these skills as intelligent?

triarchic

Although many successful musicians may not have "book smarts," they certainly have the "street smarts" needed to succeed in the music industry. Which theory of intelligence best accounts for this observation?

triarchic theory