Exam 10: Intelligence

You are interested in testing women's cognitive and motor abilities. All things considered, test scores will be higher when

In modern and conventional psychology, the terms achievement and aptitude tests can be used interchangeably.

Which of the following statements regarding the predictive use of intelligence tests is true?

On the Stanford-Binet IQ test; the __________ versions provide only a single IQ score based mainly on verbal items, but the __________ versions measure a range of abilities, providing separate scores for verbal reasoning, abstract/visual Reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and short-term memory.

Meredith Phillips (1998), who studied the families of African American and white children, has proposed that environmental factors may account for __________ of the mean IQ score differences between these two ethnic groups.

Identical twins raised in the same homes have IQs correlated at about.86. Identical twins raised apart have IQs correlated at about.75. Unrelated adopted children raised in the same home have IQs correlated at about.32. Based on this information and research on the heritability of intelligence, we can say that ___________________ of the population variability in intelligence can be attributed to the environment.

Albert Einstein's brain was smaller than average, but some parts had extremely dense neural networks. One theory suggests that the ability to establish new neural networks increases processing speed and efficiency and therefore intellectual skills. In other words, individual differences in ____________ may be key.

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 ______________.

People with undiagnosed learning disabilities, or those who have not learned to accommodate, do not, by definition, perform as well on tests as their IQs suggest they should. Unfortunately, many people view achievement tests as if they were aptitude tests, and therefore assume that people with learning disabilities are less intelligent than they really are. This underestimation is called an

Though the top 1 percent of children may be classified as intellectually gifted, only a small percentage will attain true eminence later in life. The three interacting factors that are thought to produce eminence are

The part of the brain that is related to visual-spatial functions is the ____________ lobe.

What sex differences exist in cognitive skills? What biological and environmental factors might be involved?

A graduate student takes a Wechsler intelligence test and receives a verbal IQ of 115 by comparing their responses to the responses obtained from thousands of other people of the same age. This ability to derive student's IQ is most strongly associated with which psychometric property of tests?

A new intelligence test is fairly good at meeting criterion concerns (such as job performance), but seems to work better for women than for men. This test would suffer from

Making sure that all the test takers are responding to as similar a stimulus situation as possible so that their test scores will be solely a reflection of their ability is the goal of ___________ testing.

Who among the following early intelligence researchers observed how intelligence appeared to run in certain families and contended that this factor must therefore be largely determined by genetic or biological factors? However, a major shortcoming of this conclusion was that he failed to take the impact of the environment into account.

Researchers who are affiliated with the cognitive processes approach to intelligence

Spence just received his IQ report, and his Full-Scale IQ is 110. The tester tells him that his score must be considered in context; that is, his IQ is a comparison of his score to the scores of

Professor West created a new test of intelligence. After administering the test to a group of students, he asked their teachers to rate each student in terms of how smart they thought the students were. The scores on his test did not correlate with the teacher ratings very well at all. This new test suffers from

Describe the construction of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. What summary scores are obtained from this test and how can differences among these scores be interpreted?