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.
100
The Stanford-Binet Intelligence test was developed by ____________.
Terman
The Stanford-Binet contained mostly ________ items, and it yielded ____________ IQ score(s).
-performance; single
-verbal; single
-performance; multiple
-verbal; multiple
verbal; single
An evaluation of the Abecedarian Program, an early childhood intervention program, found that compared to program participants, the control participants scored ______.
-similarly on IQ tests after the initial intervention
-lower on IQ tests even after receiving a special program from ages 5 to 8
-similarly on IQ tests after receiving a special program from ages 5 to 8
-higher on IQ tests after receiving a special program from ages 5 to 8
Lower on IQ test eve after receiving a special program from ages 5-8
A school teacher wants to administer an intelligence test to some 8-year-olds in the class. The teacher needs separate scores for verbal and processing speed abilities, as well as a Full-Scale IQ. What test fulfills these requirements?
WISC-IV
Both you and your colleague decide to rate the friendliness of everyone in your business to customers. If you agreed on most of your ratings, we would say that you have ______.
Internal Consistency
According to Carroll’s model, our ability to step on the brake pedal when we see a red light is a _________
Stratum II
Imagine that a new test of academic ability is NOT strongly associated with criterion measures such as actual high school or college academic performance. This lack of association specifically implies that this test has low ______________ validity.
criterion-related
Which of the following is a type of validity?
-Construct
-Integrity
-Interactive
-Test-retest
Construct
A subject takes a psychological test and receives a score of 82 out of 100 on it. The subject takes the same test again two days later and this time receives a score of 46. Other people who have taken the test twice have also had similar positive and negative changes in scores. These results mean that this test has ______.
low test-retest reliability
Intelligence correlates ______ with the level of socioeconomic status that people attain.
0.5-0.7
Several recently developed tests, such as the Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test, are specifically designed to measure __________and __________ abilities separately
Fluid; Crystallized
Over our life span, we progress from using ________ intelligence to depending more on ________ intelligence
Fluid; Crystallized
Spearman concluded that intellectual performance is determined partly by __________ and partly by whatever __________ abilities might be required to perform that particular task.
g-factor; specific
Which of the following is defined as the statistical study of psychological tests?
-Psychometrics
-Cognitive processes
-Psychologistics
-Factor analysis
Psychometrics
According to Carroll’s model, our ability to remember past experiences is a _________.
Stratum II