Exam 10: Intelligence

The rationale for Binet to develop his test was to:

All of the following are components in Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence EXCEPT:

Bob is very good at reading the behavioural cues that people generate and responds effectively to these cues. Bob has many close friends and is generally well liked by those who know him. In addition, Bob is also good at motivating himself and taking care of his personal needs. These qualities suggest that Bob would most likely score highly on a Measure of:

According to the American Psychiatric Association's classification system, an adult with a cognitive disability who may need occasional guidance and support when under unusual social or economic stress would be characterized as having a ________ Cognitive disability.

In order to examine how "good" your new test of intelligence is, you look at the correlations among the items in each of the subscales. You are examining

In his triarchic theory of intelligence, Robert Sternberg asserted that additional factors such as musical talents, physical abilities, and interpersonal skills should be included in the definition of intelligence.

In Carroll's three-stratum model of cognitive abilities, the most general level of ability (stratum III) corresponds to

All of the following were mentioned as different types of validity measurements EXCEPT:

Even though African American students as a group score slightly lower on IQ tests than Caucasian students, the test still does predict performance equally well for both ethnic groups.

The fact that people who are higher in intelligence tend to show lower levels of glucose consumption when problem solving supports

The company you work for wants to test potential new employees for their ability to go beyond prior learning and demonstrate future potential. Which of the following types of test would you recommend to them?

An exceptional hockey player like Sidney Crosby would, according to Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, not only have high bodily kinesthetic intelligence but also likely have high intelligence to be able to keep track of the other players on The ice, and predict and understand the movement of the puck.

A psychologist tests a group of students with an intelligence test. After 6 months she retests the same group of students with the same intelligence test and finds that there is a high correlation (+.85) between each student's pair of scores over the 6-month interval. Based on her findings we can conclude that the intelligence test has

In creating his child intelligence test, Alfred Binet made the assumption that mental abilities develop with age.

The Flynn effect demonstrates the influence of what on intelligence?

is a statistical technique that reduces a large number of measures to a smaller number of clusters, with variables within clusters being highly related with one another, but variables across clusters being much less so.

You are interested in testing women's cognitive and motor abilities. All things considered, test scores will be higher when

This approach to the study of intelligence attempts to map the structure of intellect and to discover the kinds of mental competencies that underlie test performance.

Only a small percentage of gifted children attain eminence in later life.

Early training in music can lead to structural changes in primary auditory cortex as well as the motor cortex.