Exam 13: Intelligence and Cognitive Functioning

If you were going to design your own IQ test,what types of questions would you place on it? What would you have someone do? Are any of the tasks culturally based? If so,how would different cultural groups respond to the question?

If you were testing for autism,design two or three medical procedures you would perform that would tell you if someone is autistic.Be sure to be concise with your methods and what the tests would show in the presence and absence of autism.

A difference between Einstein's brain and the average brain is that:

As many as ___ gene locations have been implicated in mild intellectual disability with each accounting for a ___ amount of the variation in intelligence.

Kip,who is now in his 20s,has a history of childhood ADHD;we could suspect that Kip is now at increased risk of ___.

Hydrocephalus:

General intelligence has ___ heritability relative to more specific abilities such as verbal and spatial abilities.

Critics of the IQ test often argue that:

Three capabilities that have consistently been shown to be related to intelligence are:

The first IQ scores were:

Working memory is:

Faster nerve conduction speed is believed to translate into:

Myelin is important to intelligence because it:

Similar to height,___ is/are increasing across generations.

Many experts believe culture-free tests are a purer measure of intelligence.

While chimpanzees have been observed to make and use basic tools,some species of birds have been shown to ___.

If savantism is due to impaired functioning in some brain areas while other areas experience enhanced functioning,then it might be possible to produce a transient savant condition;has this ever been demonstrated and,if yes,how?

How do the characteristics of autism relate to the controversy over single or multiple intelligences?

Although about 50% of intelligence is due to heredity:

Rote arithmetic facts are apparently located in the: