psych intelligence

About ________ percent of WAIS scores fall between 85 and 115.

68

Tweleve-year-old Norman has an IQ of 75 on the original version of the Stanford-Binet. His mental age is

9

If a test is standardized, this means that

a person's test performance can be compared with that of a representative pretested group.

Intelligence tests were intially designed by Binet and Simon to assess

academic aptitude

Tests designed to assess what a person has learned are called ________ tests.

achievement

The final exam in a calculus course would be an example of a(n) ________ test.

achievement

Francois was dismayed to discover that some of his football teammates were using drugs to enhance their footwork and endurance on the playing field. Which of the following drugs were the players most likely using?

amphetamines

achievement tests are designed to

assess learned knowledge or skills.

Nembutal, Seconal, and Amytal, drugs prescribed to reduce insomnia, are

barbiturates

Which drugs are most likely to be prescribed as tranquilizers?

barbiturates

which of the following psychoactive drugs is most likely to impair people's ability to fall asleep?

caffeine

Our inability to fall asleep early as we had planned is most likely a reflection of

circadian rhythm

a brief 15-to-30-minute rush of euphoria followed by a crash of agitated depression is most closely associated with the use of

cocaine

intelligence tests are most likely to be considered culturally biased in terms of their

content validity

alcohol is considered a(n)

depressant

Alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and a wide variety of other chemical agents that alter perceptions and moods are called

hallucinogens

who is most likely to be criticized for extending the definition of intelligence to an overly broad range of talents?

howard

It would be reasonable to suggest that the Flynn effect is due in part to

increasingly improved childhood health and nutrition

Factor analysis is a statistical procedure that can be used to

indentify clusters of closely related test items

Research on the use of addictive drugs indicates that

individuals who receive morphine from physicians for pain relief usually develop the irresistible cravings of an addict.

The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations is known as

intelligence

when completing a verbal aptitude test, members of an ethnic minority group are particularly likely to perform below their true ability levels if they believe that the test

is biased against members of their own ethnic group

The British government classifies the highly addictive crystallized form of ______ as on of the most dangerous of drugs.

methamphetamine

Postmortem brain analyses reveal that highly educated people have ________ when they die than do their less educated counterparts.

more synapses

the change in brain chemistry that offsets the effects of a psychoactive drug is called

neuroadaption

Terry has not had a decent night of sleep in over a week. If this sleep deprivation continues, he will become increasingly susceptible to

night terrors

a bell-shaped curve that characterizes a large sample of intelligence test scores is a graphic representation of a

normal distriubtion

People's scores on the general intelligence factor are most highly correlated with their ability to solve ________ problems.

novel

consciousness is

our awareness of ourselves and our environment

REM sleep is called paradoxical sleep because

our nervous system is highly active, while our voluntary muscles hardly move.

Unpleasant withdrawal symptoms are indicative of

physical dependence

which of the following provides the clearest indication of a drug addiction?

physical dependence

robert sternberg distinguished among analytical, creative, and __________ intelligence

practical

One component of emotional intelligence involves

predicting accurately when feelings are about to change.

Chemical substances that alter perceptions and moods are called ________ drugs.

psychoactive

the french government commissioned Binet to develop an intelligence test that would

reduce the need to rely on teachers' subjectively biased judgments of students'learning potential

Drug tolerance refers to the

reduced effect of a drug resulting from its regular usage.

The eugenics movement would have been most likely to encourage

selective breeding of highly intelligent people

Because intelligence is defined according to the attributes that enable success in a culture, psychologists consider intelligence to be

socially constructed

howard gardner is most likely to agree that the concept of intelligence includes

spatially analyzing visual input

self-fulfilling expectations are most likely to be triggered by

stereotype threat

most people would agree that intelligence tests are biased in the sense that

test performance is influenced by cultural experiences

Binet used the term mental age to refer to

the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of intelligence test performance

the widespread improvement in intelligence test performance during the past century is called

the flynn effect

the speed with which people retrieve information form memory has been found to be a predictor of their __________ intelligence

verbal

Lewis Terman's widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test was the

Standford-Binet

the test that provides separate verbal comprehension, perceptual organization, working memory, and processing speed scores, as well as an overall intelligence score, is the

WAIS

spearmans g factor refers to

a general intelligence that underlies successful performance on a wide variety of tasks.

Experts would most likely agree that intelligence is a(n)

a mental ability to learn from experience

circadian rhythm refers to

a pattern of biological functioning that occurs on a roughly 24-hour cycle

Although Nicole scored well above average on the SAT, she frequently loses her temper and needlessly antagonizes even her best friends. Her behavior best illustrates a low level of

emotional intelligence

When Andy becomes upset about getting a poor grade, he typically fails to realize that he feels scared. This lack of self-insight best illustrates an inadequate level of

emotional intelligence

The stanford-binet, WAIS, and WISC tests are all types of

general intelligence tests