Exam 10: Thinking and Language

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The average intellectual aptitude gap between graduating White and Black college graduates has been observed to ________ during their years in high school and to ________ during their years in college.

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A bell-shaped pattern that characterizes the distribution of a large sample of intelligence test scores is a graphic representation of a

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It would be reasonable to suggest that the Flynn effect is due in part to

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The similarity between intelligence scores of fraternal twins reared together is

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The widespread improvement in intelligence test performance during the past century is called

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Which of the following best describes the relationship between creativity and intelligence?

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Sorting children into "gifted child" education programs is most likely to be criticized for

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Binet used the term mental age to refer to

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In recent years, researchers are more likely than before to consider intelligence as

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Associations between intelligence and brain size are most notable in specific areas within the

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Assessing the stability of repeated intelligence test results gathered over the adult years of a single cohort would most clearly involve

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Who would have been the LEAST enthusiastic about relying on eugenics for the improvement of human intellectual functioning?

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Robert Sternberg distinguished among analytical, practical, and ________ intelligence.

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Which of the following provides the strongest evidence of environment's role in intelligence?

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Which of the following most directly suggested that intelligence declines throughout adulthood?

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A test is reliable if it

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Before publishing her test of musical aptitude, Professor Reed first administered the test to a representative sample of people. This was most clearly necessary for test

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Older people's capacity to understand the meaning of words does not decline as much as their capacity to engage in abstract reasoning. This best illustrates the stability of

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Which of the following observations provides the best evidence that intelligence test scores are influenced by heredity?

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Who attempted to assess intellectual strengths by measuring muscular power, sensory acuity, and body proportions?

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