Intelligence and IQ Testing

Question 1

What is the idea that states that intelligence is whatever intelligence tests measure?

Answer 1

Boring’s Dictum

Question 2

Sir Francis Galton proposed that intelligence is a by-product of ________.

Answer 2

Sensory Capacity

Question 3

What is the capacity to learn new ways of solving problems?

Answer 3

Fluid Intelligence

Question 4

Which intelligence decreases in advanced age?

Answer 4

Fluid Intelligence

Question 5

What is the accumulated knowledge of the world we gain over time?

Answer 5

Crystallized intelligence

Question 6

Which intelligence increases in advanced age?

Answer 6

Crystallized Intelligence

Question 7

Howard Gardner predicted there are ______ separate intelligences.

Answer 7

Eight

Question 8

What is the ability to grasp deep philosophical ideas

Answer 8

Existential Intelligence

Question 9

Which intelligence accounts for overall differences in intellect among people?

Answer 9

General intelligence (g)

Question 10

Which intelligence refers to a particular ability level in a narrow domain of intelligence?

Answer 10

Specific abilities (s)

Question 11

Which intelligence is the ability to reason logically, or “book smarts”, that plays a role in test performance?

Answer 11

Analytical Intelligence

Question 12

Which intelligence is the ability to solve real-world problems, or “street smarts”, thay may affect job performance and social interactions?

Answer 12

Practical Intelligence

Question 13

Which intelligence is the ability to come up with novel and effective answers, which may also affect job performance?

Answer 13

Creative Intelligence

Question 14

Higher mental processes include what?

Answer 14

Reasoning, understanding, and judgement.

Question 15

Consistency of measure is ______.

Answer 15

Reliability.

Question 16

Do intelligence tests for toddlers and infants predict future adulthood IQ?

Answer 16

No.

Question 17

Adults have high ______-________ reliability.

Answer 17

Test-retest.

Question 18

What is the extent to which a measure assesses what it claims to measure?

Answer 18

Validity

Question 19

The graph of all intelligence scores in a randomly selected population is the ______.

Answer 19

Bell curve

Question 20

____% to ____% of the Canadian adult population have been diagnosed with an intellectual disability.

Answer 20

0.2% to 0.5%.

Question 21

Factors that you are born with are called ______ _______.

Answer 21

Prenatal factors

Question 22

Factors that you develop are called ______ ________.

Answer 22

Postnatal factors.

Question 23

Deficits in intellectual and adaptive functioning during the developmental period are criteria from the ______.

Answer 23

DSM-5

Question 24

Global developmental delay is reserved for children ______.

Answer 24

Under the age of 5 years old.

Question 25

Giftedness is those who score in the top _____% in intelligence tests.

Answer 25

2%

Question 26

The Flynn Effect is the result of _____.

Answer 26

The average IQ of the population increasing by 3 points every 10 years.

Question 27

Ethnic differences in IQ is due to ___________ ___________.

Answer 27

Environmental factors.