Exam 10: Intelligence

David Wechsler revised Binet's test for use in United States.

Every now and then, IQ scores have to be recalibrated. This is due to

The measurement concept of validity refers to how well a test actually measures the construct it was intended to measure.

Janine takes a personality test she finds in the latest issue of "College Freshman" magazine. To her delight, she scores as kind, generous, and caring. When she takes the magazine over to her best friend's dorm and takes the test again along with several other first year students, she cannot understand why this time she scores high in the category of self-centered, vain, and competitive. The fact that Janine can get two very different high scores from the same test after retaking it shows a remarkable lack of _.

The Raven Progressive Matrices is a test of:

Based on the research examining brain areas and intelligence, we can conclude that women's brains (as compared with men's brains)

The fact that IQ differences between black and white students have decreased in recent years is generally taken as evidence that this difference was largely be due to factors.

As you administer an intelligence test to a fifth-grader, you suspect that she has much more ability than she can show on the test. Which of the following might give you a better idea of she is capable of?

Standardized tests such as the Stanford-Binet and the Weschler scales use which method of administration?

Which of the following was one of the assumptions made by Alfred Binet in his research on intelligence?

Tom has just beat William at a board game and is very excited and proud of himself. He does not want William to feel badly though so he suppresses his behavioural display of happiness. In doing so, he is displaying an understanding of which of Mayer and Salovey's components of emotional intelligence?

Which of the following is NOT one of Gardner's multiple intelligences?

Sternberg argued there are fundamental mental skills that are required for successful behaviour in any culture. These mental skills correspond to which aspect of his triarchic theory of intelligence?

According to Sternberg's Triarchic theory of intelligence, the components that are used to plan and regulate task processes are called

Marcella is testing a wiggly 4-year-old on an intelligence test. On one item the child blurts out an answer without obviously trying to think about the best response. Marcella responds by telling the child he is doing a good job on the test so far. She then asks the same question again asking the child to think about it for a moment and highlighting some important aspects of the question. The type of test administration Marcella is using is known as:

You have designed a new intelligence test and want to make sure that it is a good test. So, you look over the scales and realize that you have forgotten to test for an important dimension of intelligence. If you do not correct this, your test will have low

Well-controlled, standardized tests, such as the Wechsler scales, that use static testing as the method of administration are more accurate at making educational recommendations compared to tests using dynamic testing.

According to the text, the argument that intelligence consists of a single general ability factor was first advanced by:

Which of the following statements regarding intelligence is most accurate?

You are looking at a normal distribution of IQ scores. A friend thinks that the graph is really cool and wants to know what score would place 50% of the population above the mean. You immediately say