Exam 5: Theories and Individual Tests of Intelligence and Achievement

The analogy "hammer : nail : screwdriver : ?" exemplifies the approach to intelligence favored by

_________conceptions of intelligence emphasize benevolence, humility, freedom from conventional standards of judgment, and doing what is right.

According to Gardner 1983), which of the following is a criterion for the existence of a separate intelligence?

Results on the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement-II can be expressed as

In Guilford's system, retrieving from memory items of a specific class, such as naming objects that are both hard and edible, is an example of

Social competence as an ingredient of intelligence is emphasized by

Compared to the Index scores, the reliabilities for the 15 subtests are_______ .

In the information-processing approach to intelligence, schemes rules of thinking) are an example of

This test is especially useful at both ends of the cognitive spectrum-the very young, those with developmental delays, and the highly gifted.

___________-intelligence consists of the internal mental mechanisms that are responsible for intelligent behavior.

This subtest is a measure of working memory.

A test question such as "List as many consequences as possible if clouds had strings hanging down from them" is an index of

According to the textbook author, a possible problem with contemporary intelligence tests is that they do not

Wechsler believed that the following conditions) gave rise to a test pattern of verbal greater than performance IQ:

On this subtest, the more difficult items require the analysis of spatial relations, visual-motor coordination, and the rigid application of logic.

Performance on this subtest may be affected by anxiety or fatigue, and many clinicians have noted that patients hospitalized for medical or psychiatric reasons frequently perform poorly on it.

The split-half reliability of WAIS-IV Full Scale IQ is about

"The aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally and to deal effectively with the environment" was the definition of intelligence offered by

An)_________ definition is one that seeks to tell us the true nature of the thing being defined.

The correlation between WAIS-IV and the WAIS-III IQs is about