Exam 10: Intelligence

The ability to accurately read and effectively respond to the reactions of other people or yourself is considered to be an essential part of intelligence.

Profound retardation is frequently caused by hereditary factors.

Jay and Jackie are opening a new business and need to hire several employees. They decide to give the prospective employees an intelligence test but can't decide what it is they want to measure. Jay thinks they should find out how much the prospective Employees already know. But Jackie thinks that the person's ability to learn new things is more important for their new business. Based on their intentions to measure different Aspects, Jay should use a(n) ________ test and Jackie should use a(n) test.

In Carroll's three-stratum theory of cognitive abilities, the top or third stratum of the model contains:

Even though they are good predictors of performance in similar situations, one of the arguments against this type of test is that it makes the assumption that everyone has had the same chance to learn the material being tested. This is a(n) test.

According to the text, biological explanations for gender differences in cognitive abilities have increasingly focused on the developing brain and on current cognitive performance that is impacted by _.

Einstein's brain had more than average.

The company you work for wants to test potential new employees for their degree if prior knowledge in the field. Which of the following types of test would you recommend to them?

You are looking at a normal distribution of IQ scores. A friend thinks that the graph is really cool and wants to know between what two scores (above and below the mean) would about 80% of the people fall. You immediately say

With regard to fluid and crystallized intelligence, research has concluded that:

Once factor analysis has been conducted and two clusters of test items have been identified, the researcher still needs to identify what those clusters were measuring.

Which of the following is NOT one of the conditions where school-related gains in intelligence are most likely observed?

Research has found that what percentage of within-group variation in IQ is attributable to genetic factors?

If a child has a mental age of 7 and a chronological age of 4, her IQ score would be:

In contrast to when the test was first created, modern IQ tests provide a score that represents:

Dr. Johnson has developed a new psychological test and after conducting some pilot tests, she has determined that scores for different items on the test are all correlated with one another. Thus, we would say that her new test has strong or high:

Many critics have asserted that three of Howard Gardner's types of intelligence are not really part of intelligence at all. These three types are:

Paulo has an IQ of 130 and is 10 years old. According to Stern's IQ formula, what is Paulo's mental age?

Let's say that you designed an intelligence test over 30 years ago and normed it to a mean of 100. However, you note that the mean today is about 130 and, consequently, you need to recalibrate. Your test is reflecting

Achievement tests are more focused on past learning while aptitude tests are more focused on the potential for future learning.