Exam 8: Intelligence

What kind of intelligence encompasses skills that underlie the accurate assessment,evaluation,expression,and regulation of feelings?

Which attribute involves combining responses or ideas in novel ways?

What form do intelligence test scores currently take?

One problem with using cross-sectional studies to investigate intelligence across different ages is that results may be skewed by __________.

Vito is fascinated by the natural world.He spends each weekend in the woods,photographing and cataloging the flora and fauna he observes.He has been asked to give informal presentations to children at his local library on his vast storehouse of knowledge regarding the great outdoors.According to Howard Gardner's conception of intelligence,what kind of intelligence is Vito demonstrating?

Which psychologist adopted a pragmatic,trial-and-error approach to psychological measurement that continues to serve as the predominant approach to test construction today?

One-year-old Svetlana is shown a photograph of a milk carton.A week later she is tested by researchers who ask her to close her eyes and identify,by touch only,which of several objects placed in front of her is a milk carton.If Svetlana correctly identifies the milk carton by touch,what aspect of intelligence is she demonstrating?

Which of the following is an important legacy left by Alfred Binet's work on intelligence testing?

Robert Sternberg proposed a theory that intelligence is made up of componential,experiential,and contextual forms.What is this theory called?

In Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence,what does the experiential aspect of intelligence deal with?

If a person has an IQ score that falls in the range of 50 or 55 to 70,it would be classified as __________.

According to the principles of __________,exceptional children are taught in the regular classroom except in cases where their exceptionality would affect their learning.

According to Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence,the __________ component accounts for the demands of everyday,real-world environments.

Carmela is a whiz at problem solving.She won several prizes in robotics competitions while in elementary school,and recently received a summer grant to study applied knot theory,now that she's in high school.According to Howard Gardner's conception of intelligence,what kind of intelligence is Carmela demonstrating?

An assessment of a student's likelihood of academic success in college,such as the ACT,is an example of a(n)__________ test,though there is also some question as to whether it also tests students' prior academic achievement.

The process by which older people focus on particular areas of strength to compensate for declines in other areas is called __________.

When developmentalists considered fluid and crystallized intelligence to determine if intelligence continues to grow,slow,or decline with age,what did they discovered?

Which of the following is an advantage of group-administered tests over individually administered tests?

Cross-sectional studies show that older people are less likely to score as well as younger people on traditional intelligence tests;this is most likely due to __________.

Which term refers to a measure of intelligence that takes into account a test taker's mental and chronological age?