Intelligence retakes

Question 1

Thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating are all part of

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cognition

Question 2

Expanding possible options to find creative solutions is an example of

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divergent thinking

Question 3

Samara meets a nurse. She immediately assumes he is able to help care for sick people, works long hours, and dispenses advice about illness because her ________ schema suggests that nurses behave this way.

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role

Question 4

A concept or schema is best described as a/an

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hierarchy

Question 5

Knowing what a rainbow looks like because you have seen a rainbow is an example of a(n) ________ concept.

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natural

Question 6

Knowing what a dinosaur is because you looked through a book with pictures of dinosaurs and watched the film Jurassic Park is an example of a natural concept that was developed through ________ experience.

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indirect

Question 7

A good example of a prototype in daily life would be

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visualizing a crow

Question 8

Concept formation is closely tied to __________________memory

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semantic

Question 9

Which of the following is an example of a cross sectional study?

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IQ test a group of 5 year olds and a group of 10 year olds than compare results

Question 10

Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence includes which three factors?

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practical, analytical, creative

Question 11

Philip is blind, unable to speak, and understands only a few words. However, he can hear a piece of music once and play it back flawlessly on the piano. Victor’s abilities best represent someone with

Answer 11

savant syndrome.

Question 12

Spearman and others assert that _____ underlies more specific mental abilities and is measured by every task on an intelligence test.

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general intelligence

Question 13

Jake is sympathetic and considerate of his friends’ moods. He really identifies with their feelings and readily understands their point of view. He is well-known around campus, and he has great relationships with his classmates and professors. Which area of the multiple intelligences model does this exemplify?

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interpersonal

Question 14

Gardner’s multiple intelligences theory, which includes at least eight intelligences has been

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widely criticized for lacking empirical support

Question 15

An intelligence test that asks a person how many ways they can think to use a frisbee disc is most likely testing a person’s _____ intelligence.

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creative

Question 16

Which of the following best represents crystallized intelligence?

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Grandpa Milt is good at crossword puzzles.

Question 17

A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test, this is used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie a person’s total score.

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factor analysis

Question 18

The ability to generate, create, or discover new ideas, solutions, and possibilities.

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creativity

Question 19

A test developer defines uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group. Which of the following best describes this process?

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Reliability testing

Question 20

Which of the following is the best example of an aptitude test?

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Abdul takes the ACT for college admission.

Question 21

Which of the following can be used to illustrate that only about 2 percent of the population typically scores at least two standard deviations above the mean on an intelligence test?

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Normal curve

Question 22

A measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the level of performance typically associated with children of a certain chronological age.

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mental age

Question 23

A test yields consistent results upon retesting, so it can be said to have a high degree of

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reliability.

Question 24

The most widely used intelligence tests; they contain verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests.

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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

Question 25

Looking at the graph, which is the likeliest conclusion?

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Intelligence test scores and SAT scores are positively correlated

Question 26

Using the heritability chart here as a guide, which of the following statements is very likely to be true?

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About 50 % of the variation in measured intelligence is the result of genetic inheritance

Question 27

The heritability of intelligence relates to the

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extent to which variability among individuals’ intelligence scores can be attributed to genetic variation.

Question 28

Of the following, which is NOT likely to be an environmental factor in that would affect scores on intelligence tests?

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Fetal alcohol syndrome

Question 29

There is a higher correlation between the IQ scores of identical twins raised together than for fraternal twins raised together. What conclusion can be drawn from this data?

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There is a genetic effect on intelligence.

Question 30

Of the following, which is not considered a learning disability?

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ADHD

Question 31

Beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language, is called the ________________ stage.

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babbling

Question 32

The idea that language develops innately because of an inborn language acquisition device was proposed by

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Chomsky

Question 33

In language, the smallest unit that carries meaning

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morpheme

Question 34

True or False: Language development’s timing varies, but all children follow the same sequence.

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true

Question 35

Childhood represents a ______________ ______________ for language learning, and those who have not been exposed to a spoken or signed language by age 7 lose their ability to master any language.

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critical period

Question 36

What theorist was best known for the idea that the language one speaks is determinative of the thoughts one thinks?

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Whorf

Question 37

After an accident, Bridget lost her ability to both speak and understand spoken language. Which of the following sets of terms most closely relate to Bridget’s situation?

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aphasia, Broca, Wernicke

Question 38

All human languages – American Sign Language included – include rules. Some rules are for deriving meaning and some rules are for combining words into sentences. These rules refer to

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grammar, semantics and syntax

Question 39

In the word “prepare,” each “r” can be considered a

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phoneme.

Question 40

Which is the best example of telegraphic speech?

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“Jim fall”

Question 41

If Manuel, a Hispanic, had heard that Hispanic students generally do more poorly on the SAT than do White students, he may not have done as well as he was capable of doing. This is an example of

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stereotype threat

Question 42

Racial and ethnic groups differ in their average intelligence test scores. The evidence suggests that

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environmental differences are largely, perhaps entirely, responsible for these group differences.

Question 43

Which of the following provides the best evidence that race is more of a social construct than a biological category?

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People of varying ancestry may categorize themselves as having the same race.

Question 44

According to most experts, intelligence tests are not biased because

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the tests generally predict what they are supposed to predict.

Question 45

Which of the following is true of boys compared with girls?

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Boys are more likely to be represented among those scoring extremely low as well as those scoring extremely high on tests of mental abilities.