Exam 30: A: Assessing Intelligence

A college administrator is trying to assess whether an admissions test accurately predicts how well applicants will perform at his school. The administrator is most obviously concerned that the test is

The WAIS was designed for testing ________ intelligence, whereas the WISC was designed for testing ________ intelligence.

Molly has just taken a test of her capacity to learn to be a computer programmer. This is an example of a(n) ________ test.

Different age groups are tested at the same time in a(n)

To be diagnosed with an intellectual disability, guidelines specify performance on an intelligence test of approximately

The correlation between intelligence test scores and annual income will probably be HIGHEST if computed for a group having test scores ranging from

Dr. Benthem reports that the scores of 100 male and 100 female students on his new test of mechanical reasoning form a normal curve. From his statement we may conclude that

Lewis Terman's widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test was the

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

Encouraging those of high intellectual ability to mate with one another was of most interest to

Crystallized intelligence refers most directly to a person's

The final exam in a calculus course would be an example of a(n) ________ test.

A test has a high degree of validity if it

If both depressed and nondepressed individuals receive similar scores on a diagnostic test for depression, it suggests that the test

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

A test is reliable if it

Aptitude tests are specifically designed to

About ________ percent of WAIS scores fall between 70 and 130.