Exam 30: A: Assessing Intelligence

Educational programs for gifted children are most likely to be criticized for

The test that provides separate verbal comprehension, perceptual organization, working memory, and processing speed scores, as well as an overall intelligence score, is the

The relatively narrow range of intelligence among the college seniors who take the Graduate Record Exam serves to ________ the ________ of the Graduate Record Exam.

One scholar has speculated that a genetic phenomenon comparable to "hybrid vigor" in plants and animals might have contributed to

Which of the following terms refers to a person's ability to reason speedily and abstractly?

In developing a test of intellectual ability for Parisian schoolchildren, Binet and Simon assumed that

Dr. Bronfman has administered her new 100-item test of abstract reasoning to a large sample of students. She is presently comparing their scores on the odd-numbered questions with those on the even-numbered questions in an effort to

One of the 15 subtests included in the latest edition of the ________ involves remembering and correctly sequencing series of numbers and letters.

A survey of the history of intelligence testing reinforces the important lesson that

Older adults outperformed younger adults in their responses to New York Times crossword puzzles. The superior performance of these older adults best illustrates the value of

Binet's recommendation of "mental orthopedics" highlighted the potential role of ________ in intellectual ability. Terman's sympathy with "eugenics" highlighted the potential role of ________ in intellectual ability.

Which of the following most directly suggested that intelligence declines throughout adulthood?

Research suggests that during early and middle adulthood

Binet used the term mental age to refer to

Terman observed that children with IQ scores over 135 are likely to

"Gifted child" programs can lead to ________ by implicitly labeling some students as "ungifted" and isolating them from an enriched educational environment.

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

When Ian Deary and his colleagues retested 80-year-old Scots, using an intelligence test they had taken as 11-year-olds, the correlation of their scores across seven decades was

The sort of problem solving that demonstrates "school smarts" is what researchers have historically assessed in their tests of

The distribution of body weights in the general adult human population forms a(n)