CH 10

Question 1

What’s Intelligence?

Answer 1

Is the ability to use one’s mind to solve novel problems and learn from experience.

Question 2

What’s Ratio IQ?

Answer 2

A statistic obtained by dividing a person’s mental age by the person’s physical age and then multiplying the quotient by 100.

Question 3

What’s Deviation IQ?

Answer 3

A statistic obtained by dividing a person’s test score by the average test score for people of that age and then multiplying the quotient by 100.

Question 4

What were the 3 Verbal Comprehension Test?

Answer 4

Vocabulary, similarities, information.

Question 5

What were the 3 Perceptual reasoning tests?

Answer 5

Block design, matrix reasoning, visual puzzles.

Question 6

What were the 2 Working Memory Tests?

Answer 6

Digit span, arithmetic.

Question 7

What were the 2 Processing Speed Tests?

Answer 7

Symbol search, coding.

Question 8

What was the Core Subtest, Vocabulary?

Answer 8

The test taker is asked to tell the examiner what certain words mean. For example: chair (easy), hesitant (medium), and presumptuous (hard).

Question 9

What was the Core Subtest, Similarities?

Answer 9

The test taker is asked what 19 pairs of words have in common. For example: In what way are an apple and a pear alike? In what way are a painting and a symphony alike?

Question 10

What was the Core Subtest, Information?

Answer 10

The test taker is asked several general knowledge questions. These cover people, places, and events. For example: How many days are in a week? What is the capital of France? Name three oceans. Who wrote The Inferno?

Question 11

What was the Core Subtest, Block design?

Answer 11

The test taker is shown 2-D patterns made up of red and white squares and triangles and is asked to reproduce these patterns using cubes with red and white faces.

Question 12

What was the Core Subtest, Matrix Reasoning?

Answer 12

The test taker is asked to add a missing element to a pattern so that it progresses logically. For example: Which of the four symbols at the bottom goes in the empty cell of the table?

Question 13

What was the Core Subtest, Visual puzzles?

Answer 13

The test taker is asked to complete visual puzzles like this one: “Which three of these pictures go together to make this puzzle?”

Question 14

What was the Core Subtest, Digit Span?

Answer 14

The test taker is asked to repeat a sequence of numbers. Sequences run from two to nine numbers in length. In the second part of this test, the sequences must be repeated in reversed order. An easy example is to repeat 3-7-4. A harder one is 3-9-1-7-4-5-3-9.

Question 15

What was the Core Subtest, Arithmetic?

Answer 15

The test taker is asked to solve arithmetic problems, progressing from easy to difficult ones.

Question 16

What was the Core Subtest, Symbol Search?

Answer 16

The test taker is asked to indicate whether one of a pair of abstract symbols is contained in a list of abstract symbols. There are many of these lists, and the test taker does as many as he or she can in 2 minutes.

Question 17

What was the Core Subtest, Coding?

Answer 17

The test taker is asked to write down the number that corresponds to a code for a given symbol (e.g., a cross, a circle, and an upside-down T) and does as many as he or she can in 90 seconds.

Question 18

What’s the 2 Factor Theory of Intelligence?

Answer 18

Suggests that a person’s performance on a test is due to a combination of general ability and skills that are specific to the test.

Question 19

What’s were Thurstone’s 7 Primary Mental Abilities?

Answer 19

Word fluency, verbal comprehension, numerical ability, spatial visualization, associative memory, perceptual speed, reasoning.

Question 20

What are the 8 Mid Level Abilities?

Answer 20

Memory and learning, visual perception, auditory perception, retrieval ability, cognitive speediness, processing speed, crystallized intelligence, and fluid intelligence.

Question 21

What’s Fluid Intelligence?

Answer 21

Refers to the ability to solve and reason about novel problems, and it is generally measured with tests that present people with abstract problems in new domains that must be solved under time pressure.

Question 22

What’s Analytic Intelligence?

Answer 22

The ability to identify and define problems and to find strategies for solving them.

Question 23

What’s Emotional Intelligence?

Answer 23

The ability to reason about emotions and to use emotions to enhance reasoning.

Question 24

What’s Practical Intelligence?

Answer 24

The ability to implement these solutions in everyday settings.

Question 25

What’s Creative Intelligence?

Answer 25

The ability to generate solutions that other people do not.

Question 26

What’s Fraternal (dizygotic) twins?

Answer 26

Siblings who develop from two different eggs that were fertilized by two different sperm.

Question 27

What’s Identical (monozygotic) twins?

Answer 27

Siblings who develop from the splitting of a single egg that was fertilized by a single sperm, and they share 100% of their genes.

Question 28

What’s Heritability Coefficient?

Answer 28

A statistic that describes the proportion of the difference between people’s IQ scores that can be explained by differences in their genes. (commonly denoted as h2)

Question 29

What’s Shared Environment?

Answer 29

Features of the environment that are experienced by all relevant members of a household. For example, siblings raised in the same household usually get about the same nutrition, have about the same access to books, and so on.

Question 30

What’s Nonshared Environment?

Answer 30

Features of the environment that are not experienced by all relevant members of a household.

Question 31

What’s Stereotype Threat?

Answer 31

Is the fear of confirming the negative beliefs that others may hold.

Question 32

What’s Cognitive Enhancers?

Answer 32

Drugs that improve the psychological processes that underlie intelligent performance.

Question 33

What’s Savant Syndrome?

Answer 33

A condition in which a person of very limited overall intelligence has a single ability that is truly exceptional, such as an amazing memory for music, numbers, or spatial relationships.