Exam 7: Cognitive Development Ii: Individual Differences in Cognitive Abilities

Kanisha and Terrence are African American children. Kanisha was adopted into a middle class white family, and Terrence was adopted into a middle class black family. Research on adopted African American children would predict all of the following EXCEPT

Frank has an IQ of 97. He would be classified as

Research into racial differences in intellectual performance has shown consistently higher performance on achievement tests, particularly math and science, by children who are

Psychologists use the term __________ to refer to the stability of a test score.

The degree to which an individual can automatically produce solutions to simple calculation problems is called __________ .

According to Robert Sternberg, if you instruct children at the time of the test as to what's expected of them, they will do dramatically better than if you just go in, give them the test, and look at the results. This is called

A subtle but powerful sense of pressure felt when one attempts to perform well in an area for which a negative stereotype exists for one's group is called __________ .

When compared to non-preschool peers, poor children with preschool experience

Howard Gardner proposes eight separate types of intelligence, including all of the following EXCEPT

It is important for test makers to restandardize the intelligence tests periodically because

Which of the following indicates whether a test is measuring what it is intended to measure?

Differences in average IQ test scores between African American and Caucasian children become apparent at about the age of ________ years.

Marcia and Joe have children with high IQs. Describe how they are likely to treat their children.

__________ tests are intended to tell us a child's basic capacity, while a(n) __________ test tells us what a child has learned.

At the end of the school year, Theresa takes a test to measure how much she has learned. What type of test is this?

Billy took the WISC IV when he was age 8 and again at age 9. The correlation between these two scores is most likely to be around

Which of the following would be taken by 17-year-old Kelly?

Although the IQs of African American children are 10 to 12 points lower than those of Caucasian children, the difference is within the reaction range of IQs. This indicates that the difference could be caused by all of the following EXCEPT

Children born to poverty-level parents who were adopted into middle-class families typically have IQs that are

Research attempting to directly compare the intelligence of individuals in one culture to those in another have generally been restricted to comparisons of __________ societies.