Exam 11: Intelligence

Before publishing her test of musical aptitude,Professor Reed first administered the test to a representative sample of people.This was most clearly necessary for test

Superior performance on intelligence tests is most likely to be indicative of

If a test is standardized,this means that

Down syndrome is a disorder of varying severity caused by

Some hereditarians have been fearful that higher twentieth-century birth rates among those with lower intelligence scores would shove average intelligence scores progressively downward.This fear has been most directly alleviated by the discovery of

Among entering American collegians,men are ________ likely than women to spend many hours playing video games.Playing action video games has been observed to ________ players' spatial abilities.

The WAIS was initially created by

A measure of intelligence based on head size is likely to have a ________ level of reliability and a ________ level of validity.

Assessing current competence is to ________ tests as predicting future performance is to ________ tests.

On which of the following tasks are 55-year-old adults most likely to perform just as effectively as they could 30 years earlier?

A test has a high degree of validity if it

When promised money for doing well on an intelligence test,adolescents in four dozen studies scored higher.This best illustrates that intelligence test performance is influenced by

Gardner's argument for multiple intelligences receives support from the

Males' reading ability scores vary ________ than females' scores,and males' math test performance scores vary ________ than females' scores.

Dr.Zimmer has designed a test to measure golfers' knowledge of their sport's history.To interpret scores on it,he is presently administering the test to a representative sample of all golfers.Dr.Zimmer is clearly in the process of

Binet and Simon designed a test of intellectual abilities in order to

Emotional intelligence is a critical component of

Which of the following observations provides the BEST evidence that intelligence test scores are influenced by heredity?

Those who emphasize the importance of the g factor would be most likely to encourage

Terman's studies of 1500 California children with IQ scores over 135 indicated that these high-scoring children