Exam 10: Intelligence

You have a meeting with three other researchers for the purpose of deciding how to operationalize (i.e. measure) happiness. You are unsure what the best approach is but the other three people each have very strong, and differing, opinions. The first researcher insists the most important consideration is whether whatever is chosen actually measures what you're intending to measure (i.e. happiness). They suggest clear statistical relationships between your chosen measure and other previously used measures to assess the same thing can provide a sense of confidence in the measure you choose.

Where ___________ was impressed by the fact that scores on different tests correlated, ___________ was impressed by the fact that the correlations were far from perfect.

If you wanted to administer an intelligence test to a group of individuals with learning disabilities and to make sure that you tested the limits of their competency you should probably use

Your child is nervous about an IQ test that they are scheduled to take in the near future. You try to explain that it's only an estimate and people disagree about how to measure intelligence, let alone how to even define it. If your child is between the ages of 6-11, and you know that in addition to intelligence, separate measures related to various things like processing speed and verbal comprehension are also going to be produced by the test they are taking. What test are they most likely taking?

Stern's intelligence quotient was calculated as a(n) ___________.

Raymond Cattell is most strongly associated with ___________.

Susan is high in emotional intelligence. We would expect her to be good in all of the following EXCEPT

Once factor analysis has been conducted and two clusters of test items have been identified, the researcher still needs to identify what those clusters were measuring.

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.

According to the Flynn effect, IQ scores in the Western world have ______.

You are worried that as your grandmother grows older, she may lose some of her intellectual abilities. This is particularly true since she was in an accident that damaged some of the grey matter in her frontal and parietal lobes. What type of intelligence loss should you be MOST concerned about?

Bella cooks regularly for her family of four following tested recipes. She is having 8 people for dinner on the weekend, and plans to double the ingredients for two of her most successful dishes. Bella is using her ___________.

Charles Spearman's g factor theory of intelligence proposes that there are four distinct types of intelligence.

What is the difference between reliability and validity? For each construct, discuss three different ways that it is measured.

An important milestone is in the study of intelligence has been primarily influences by Galton's studies of hereditary genius?

Professor Flynn gave an exam to his class on the material in chapter 10 of the text, but all of the items on the test came from only the first 3 pages of the chapter. Flynn's exam suffers from a lack of

PET scans of people taken while they are solving problems have revealed that the brains of highly intelligent people consumed __________ glucose, suggesting that their brains were working ______ than the brains of people with average intelligence.

Historically, setting the stage for later attempts to measure intelligence and discover its causes was the result of the contributions of __________________ and _______________.

What effects have been shown in early-intervention programs for disadvantaged children?

A child with a mental age of 10 and a chronological age of 8 would have an IQ of ___________, according to Stern.