Exam 9: Intelligence and Iq Testing

Albert Einstein, a mathematical genius, had a smaller than average brain. Very intelligent children often have thinner cortex than other children their age. Which of the following is supported by evidence like this?

Describe the conditions under which standardized tests such as the SAT and GRE are strong predictors of grades in university, and conditions under which those tests are poor predictors of success. Explain the statistical phenomenon associated with these patterns.

Measuring intelligence by testing is a rather new concept in the history of the world. The idea of such testing came from

Creativity is often measured by psychologists using tests of

The term Terman's "Termites" refers to

Many items on a culture-fair test require the use of

Which of these is a criterion of the formal definition of intellectual disability?

Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences suggests that there are numerous __________ of mind, or ways of thinking about the world.

Which of the following statements is true concerning the relationship between brain size and intelligence?

According to Sir Francis Galton's 19^th century hypothesis, intelligence is

A diagnosis of __________ disability is associated with IQ scores lower than 70.

Overestimation of our own intellectual abilities is particularly related to poor __________ skills, or erroneous judgments about our own knowledge.

Which of the following disorders is associated with a mutation or flaw in a specific chromosome?

Analysis of Einstein's brain showed a significantly wider __________ lobe, and this area tends to become active during spatial reasoning tasks.

Which of the following concepts is most similar to the restriction of range problem associated with the correlation between standardized test scores and performance in university courses?

Galton's intelligence test items are to __________ as Binet and Simon's intelligence test items are to __________.

Which scholars were credited with developing the first intelligence test?

According to Spearman, it is one's __________ intelligence that produces the positive correlations found between math, reading scores, and visual perception tests.

intelligence refers to the accumulated knowledge we acquire as we age.

Charles Spearman believed that intelligence is composed of