Exam 10: Intelligence

Standardization, the g factor, and fluid intelligence are psychometric concepts, whereas analytic intelligence, performance components, and creative intelligence are _.

Using Stern's intelligence quotient, if Susie is 6 years old and has a mental age of the average 9 year old, her IQ would be:

Researchers who are affiliated with the cognitive processes approach to intelligence:

Tia is 10 years old. She has learned to speak and has acquired some basic self help and simple manual skills but has not been able to learn to read and write. Most likely Tia's level of mental retardation would be classified as:

Both the intellectually gifted and the intellectually disabled need

Research on gender differences in cognitive skills has revealed that men tend to score slightly higher on tests of certain spatial abilities and mathematical reasoning, while women tend to perform better on tests of .

The Wechsler scales are important because they measure abilities.

Environmental explanations of the differences in cognitive abilities between men and women have typically focused on the role of:

Using IQ test scores to predict grades, intelligence researchers have obtained positive correlations of about 0.60 for high school students and correlations in the range of ________ for university students.

Research on IQ differences between African American and Caucasian students indicates that:

Which of the following is NOT one of Sternberg's fundamental mental skills that are required for successful behaviour in any culture?

PET scans of people taken while they are solving problems have revealed that the brains of highly intelligent people consumed less glucose, suggesting that when compared to the brains of people with average intelligence, their brains were working _.

Which of the following statements about the human brain is FALSE?

Research has indicated that the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence test has:

The ability to apply previously learned knowledge to current problems, which involves retrieving both factual knowledge and problem-solving schemas from long term memory, is called:

Kimura found that homosexual men are less accurate than heterosexual men on a throw-to-target task even after sports history and hand strength were controlled.

Carroll's three-stratum theory of cognitive abilities is an integrative model of intelligence that contains elements from which three theorists?

What situation inspired educators to demand tests of intelligence that could be administered to large groups of children in a group setting?

Juan has a mental age of 8 and an IQ of 80. How old is Juan?

Which of the following formulas was originally used by William Stern to determine a person's intelligence quotient?