Intelligence retakes Flashcards
Thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating are all part of
cognition
Expanding possible options to find creative solutions is an example of
divergent thinking
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.
role
A concept or schema is best described as a/an
hierarchy
Knowing what a rainbow looks like because you have seen a rainbow is an example of a(n) ________ concept.
natural
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.
indirect
A good example of a prototype in daily life would be
visualizing a crow
Concept formation is closely tied to __________________memory
semantic
Which of the following is an example of a cross sectional study?
IQ test a group of 5 year olds and a group of 10 year olds than compare results
Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence includes which three factors?
practical, analytical, creative
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
savant syndrome.
Spearman and others assert that _____ underlies more specific mental abilities and is measured by every task on an intelligence test.
general intelligence
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?
interpersonal
Gardner’s multiple intelligences theory, which includes at least eight intelligences has been
widely criticized for lacking empirical support
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.
creative
Which of the following best represents crystallized intelligence?
Grandpa Milt is good at crossword puzzles.
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.
factor analysis
The ability to generate, create, or discover new ideas, solutions, and possibilities.
creativity
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?
Reliability testing
Which of the following is the best example of an aptitude test?
Abdul takes the ACT for college admission.
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?
Normal curve
A measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the level of performance typically associated with children of a certain chronological age.
mental age
A test yields consistent results upon retesting, so it can be said to have a high degree of
reliability.
The most widely used intelligence tests; they contain verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests.
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
Looking at the graph, which is the likeliest conclusion?
Intelligence test scores and SAT scores are positively correlated
Using the heritability chart here as a guide, which of the following statements is very likely to be true?
About 50 % of the variation in measured intelligence is the result of genetic inheritance
The heritability of intelligence relates to the
extent to which variability among individuals’ intelligence scores can be attributed to genetic variation.
Of the following, which is NOT likely to be an environmental factor in that would affect scores on intelligence tests?
Fetal alcohol syndrome
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?
There is a genetic effect on intelligence.
Of the following, which is not considered a learning disability?
ADHD
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.
babbling
The idea that language develops innately because of an inborn language acquisition device was proposed by
Chomsky
In language, the smallest unit that carries meaning
morpheme
True or False: Language development’s timing varies, but all children follow the same sequence.
true
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.
critical period
What theorist was best known for the idea that the language one speaks is determinative of the thoughts one thinks?
Whorf
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?
aphasia, Broca, Wernicke
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
grammar, semantics and syntax
In the word “prepare,” each “r” can be considered a
phoneme.
Which is the best example of telegraphic speech?
“Jim fall”
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
stereotype threat
Racial and ethnic groups differ in their average intelligence test scores. The evidence suggests that
environmental differences are largely, perhaps entirely, responsible for these group differences.
Which of the following provides the best evidence that race is more of a social construct than a biological category?
People of varying ancestry may categorize themselves as having the same race.
According to most experts, intelligence tests are not biased because
the tests generally predict what they are supposed to predict.
Which of the following is true of boys compared with girls?
Boys are more likely to be represented among those scoring extremely low as well as those scoring extremely high on tests of mental abilities.
