Exam 10: Intelligence

Intensive early childhood intervention programs can lead to long term positive effects on children's outcome regardless of socioeconomic status.

On autopsy, Einstein's brain was found to be ___________ than average overall and ___________ in some regions.

Which of the following intelligences did Gardner define as the ability to understand oneself?

How is factor analysis used in the study of intelligence?

How do causal factors differ for mild and profound mental retardation?

Which of the following was NOT listed in your text as being correlated with IQ scores?

Howard Gardner's theory of intelligence would be considered to be which type of theory?

The company you work for wants to test potential new employees for their degree of prior knowledge in the field. Which of the following types of test would you recommend to them?

A family brags about how their child is now capable of looking at a picture of a ball and saying ball. If the child is developmentally reaching the appropriate milestones then how old is this child?

Relatively consistent research findings on sex differences in cognitive abilities indicate that women generally perform better than men do on tests of ideational fluency and men generally perform better than women do on tests of _______________.

Which of the following tests would you expect to correlate the highest with a standard IQ test such as the WAIS?

Martin is a very successful trial attorney. He rarely loses a case, because he is so good at convincing the jury to see them from his point of view. He is also active in his community and makes speeches to various groups to persuade them to support the causes in which he believes. His friends joke that he can charm anyone with his silver tongue and that he should run for political office. Martin probably has

Many critics have asserted that three of Howard Gardner's types of intelligence are not really part of intelligence at all. These three types are

Kira understands and relates well to others. What intellectual ability is Kira high in?

Profound retardation is frequently caused by hereditary factors.

William Stren first proposed the concept of an intelligence quotient (IQ). In part, he developed this idea by building upon another preexisting concept. What was that?

Alfred Binet would be most likely to endorse which of the following statements about intelligence?

What evidence is there that intelligence might involve neural efficiency?

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

Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence was discussed as an example of the ____________ approach to intelligence.