Quiz 4 Flashcards
Kris is intellectually gifted with an IQ of 142. When placed on a bell curve, what part of the population would Kris fall in?
Top 10% of the curve
According to Sir Francis Galton, which of the following was NOT related to intelligence?
-Skull size
-Privileged environment
-Hand strength
-Reaction speed
Privileged environment
Alfred Binet would be most likely to endorse which of the following statements about intelligence?
-The rate at which a person gains knowledge is an internal characteristic of the person and remains relatively constant over time.
-The rate at which a person gains knowledge is largely determined by the environment.
-The characteristics of successful people are largely determined by heredity.
-Chronological age is a better measure of intelligence than is mental age.
The rate at which a person gains knowledge is an internal characteristic of the person and remains relatively constant over time
According to the text, the term __________ is defined as the individual differences in the ability to acquire knowledge, to think and to reason effectively, and to deal adaptively with the environment.
intelligence
Which of the following was NOT listed in your text as being correlated with IQ scores?
-Income
-Political conservatism
-Longer life expectancy
-Job performance
Political Conservatism
Renzulli (2002) believes that gifted children who become eminent adults ______.
-are more motivated and tend to work harder than their less-eminent counterparts
-do not need to work as hard as other individuals to perform at the highest levels in their fields
-are socially maladjusted
-are highly intelligent, but usually not very creative
are more motivated and tend to work harder than their less-eminent counterparts
Intellectually gifted children who do NOT experience challenging educational opportunities in the classroom ______.
may get bored and even drop out
The approach to the study of intelligence that attempts to map the structure of the intellect and to discover the kinds of mental competence that underlies test performance is called the __________ approach, whereas the _______ approach studies the specific thought processes that underlie those mental competencies.
psychometric and cognitive process
Researchers at Superior College are selecting an intelligence test to use in an upcoming research. What test should they use that measures verbal and non-verbal intellectual skills?
Wechsler Scales
Kira understands and relates well to others. What intellectual ability is Kira high in?
Interpersonal Intelligence
A student recently scored very high on a test of verbal ability. According to Spearman’s g factor ______.
The student is likely to also score high on other tests of intelligence
_____ bias refers to a test that underestimates a person’s true intellectual ability; whereas __________ bias refers to a test that is highly related to criterion measures for some groups but not for others.
Outcome; predictive
The concept of “mental age” is most strongly associated with which of the following individuals?
Albert Binet
A well-controlled testing environment that limits the effects of extraneous factors on test scores is most relevant to establishing which of the following?
-Construct validity
-Internal consistency
-Standardization
-Content validity
Standardization
Today’s IQ scores are based on a person’s performance relative to the scores of other people of the same age, with a score of __________ corresponding to the average performance of that age group.
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