Chapter 7 Flashcards
Who created the first intelligence test and when did they create it?
Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon in the 1900’s
Flynn effect is
the increase of about 3 points per decade in average population performance on IQ tests
What three clusters are cognitive abilities grouped into?
a) Verbal
b) Quantitative
c) Spatial abilities
Although there is generally no sex differences between male and female when it comes to verbal performance, when they do occur how are they described?
as relatively small and tend to favour girls and women
Boys or girls learn to talk at a younger age
Girls
When does the differences in vocabulary between men and female become none
Late childhood
What country had the largest sex differences in the world?
Finland
Girls or boys tend to outperform the other in reading and writing?
Girls
Do men or women outperform the other the other on mental rotation tasks
men outperform women
True or false; men tend to show better spatial location memory then women
False, women do
What is the greater male variability hypothesis?
The prediction that men show more variability then women in their distributions of scores on cognitive performance measures, leading them to be overrepresented in the very bottom and top of score distributions
