Exam 30: Assessing Intelligence

Sorting children into gifted and nongifted educational groups

Over the past 50 or so years, children with mental retardation have increasingly been likely to

Who attempted to assess intellectual strengths by measuring muscular power, sensory acuity, and body proportions?

The high positive correlations between scores received on comparable sections of the SAT and GRE provide evidence for the ________ of these test scores.

Academic aptitude test scores are MOST likely to predict accurately the academic success of ________ students.

Which of the following is most likely to decrease with age?

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

In his study of children with high intelligence scores, Terman found that

About ________ percent of WAIS scores fall between 85 and 115.

University grades are used to assess the ________ of the SAT.

The test created by Alfred Binet was designed specifically to

A test that measures or predicts what it is supposed to is said to have a high degree of

Instead of calculating an intelligence quotient, most current intelligence tests represent the test-taker's performance relative to

Older people's capacity to understand the meaning of words does not decline as much as their capacity to engage in abstract reasoning. This best illustrates the stability of

A test of your capacity to learn to be an automobile mechanic would be considered a(n) ________ test.

Some psychologists contend that intelligence consists of fluid intelligence, which ________ during adulthood, and crystallized intelligence, which ________.

Why does the predictive validity of general aptitude tests decrease as the educational experience of the students who take them increases?