Week 6 Flashcards
Who developed the first objective intelligence test that directly assessed specific high-level abilities identified as key components
of intelligence?
a. Spearman
b. Wechsler
c. Gardner
d. Binet
d
Chris is an elementary school student who is good at putting together puzzles, identifying which object doesn’t belong to a given
set, and thinking on the spot. Chris’s proficiency in these various intellectual tasks is an indication of his level of
intelligence.
a. crystallized
b. fluid
c. emotional
d. processing
b
Which of the following best describes Carroll’s three-stratum theory
of intelligence?
a. Intelligence is best measured by reading, writing, and
mathematics concepts.
b. Each individual can be categorized into one of three levels of
intelligence.
c. Successful intelligence involves analytic, practical, and creative
abilities.
d. General intelligence influences intermediate abilities, which
influence specific processes.
d
The summary measure that is the result of an intelligence test is
referred to as a person’s .
a. normal distribution
b. intelligence quotient
c. general intelligence
d. individual quantitative measure
b
As an individual moves from early childhood into adolescence and
adulthood, the influence of genetic factors on intelligence
.
a. increases
b. fluctuates
c. remains stable
d. decreases
a
Six-year-old Aliya loves to read. Her parents aren’t particularly
engaged in reading themselves, but because of Aliya’s evident
interest, they surround her with books and read to her. According to
Sandra Scarr, the relationship between Aliya’s interests and her
parents’ actions is an example of .
a. passive effects
b. active effects
c. evocative effects
d. mental modeling
c
The HOME was developed to measure the complex influences of
family environment on a child’s intelligence. Though this measure
can be used to predict a child’s IQ score, why are researchers not
able to conclude that better home environment causes higher
scores?
a. Children’s IQ scores tend to fluctuate widely with age.
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b. This measure does not account for the influence of parents’ genes
on the home environment and the child’s intelligence.
c. Children’s IQ scores are not normally distributed and therefore
cannot be used to draw causal relationships.
d. Subsequent measures have shown that home environment has
little influence on intelligence.
b
Which of the following statements is true regarding the relation
between environmental risk and intelligence, according to the
environmental risk scale?
a. Parental education level is the key factor in predicting a child’s
intellectual development.
b. The impact of additional risks diminishes greatly after the
presence of three risk factors.
c. The total number of risks is a better predictor of IQ than the
presence of any single risk.
d. Though IQ score remains stable over time, the number of risk
factors in a child’s environment is highly variable.
c
The fact that certain types of brain damage can lead to deficiencies
in specific areas (e.g., interpersonal skills) and that prodigies show
remarkable ability in specific areas (e.g., musical intelligence) but
not in others led to the development of which theory?
a. Sternberg’s theory of successful intelligence
b. The Flynn effect
c. Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences
d. Thurston’s theory of primary mental abilities
c
What are the three components of Sternberg’s theory of successful
intelligence?
a. Analytic abilities, practical abilities, and creative abilities
b. Linguistic intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence, and spatial intelligence
c. Passive effects, evocative effects, and active effects
d. General intelligence, intermediate-level abilities, and specific
processes
a
Performance on measures of is the strongest
predictor of a kindergartner’s later ability to sound out and spell
words.
a. phonemic awareness
b. letter name mastery
c. IQ
d. phonological recoding skills
a
Comprehension monitoring describes an individual’s ability to
a. process a word’s meaning from its visual form.
b. translate letters into sounds and blend those sounds into words.
c. keep track of one’s ongoing understanding of a text.
d. recognize that readers may not have the same knowledge as the
writer
c
Which high-level writing strategy involves the repetition of a
certain sequence of actions, such as determining a thesis, outlining
the main points, and figuring out how to support those points?
a. Following a script
b. Comprehension monitoring
c. Planning
d. Strategy–choice processing
a
The knowledge that the number 5 represents a unit that falls
between the numbers 4 and 6, regardless of whether one is referring
to distance, weight, set size, or some other measurement, is known
as .
a. mathematical equality
b. decomposition
c. numerical magnitude representations
d. mental modeling
c
When asked to solve the problem 2+3+4=__+4,
10-year-old Nevin gives the incorrect answer 9, but explains his
answer by pointing to all four numbers, rather than just the three
that come before the equal sign. Nevin’s behavior illustrates
.
a. mathematical inequality
b. gesture–speech mismatch
c. decomposition
d. visual retrieval error
b
