Exam 8: Intelligence

Cosette took an intelligence test that used age-graded tasks similar to the original Stanford-Binet.Cosette,who is eight years old,most likely will ____.

Cal Critic does not like intelligence tests and loves to talk about all the problems that intelligence testing involves.Which of Cal's criticisms would NOT be accurate?

Delenn is interested in studying the human capacity to reason,remember,understand,and solve problems.She plans to conduct various studies to better understand ____.

Which component is least essential to creativity?

Shelby is four years old.In school,she was tested with the Stanford-BinetIntelligence Scale and achieved a mental age of eight.Terman would say that her Intelligence Quotient,or IQ,is ____.

Karloss has administered an IQ test to a large sample of people representative of the general population.If his results are consistent with those discussed in your textbook,he should find the greatest difference between which two groups?

You are trying to construct items for a new culture-fair IQ test.Which item would you be leastlikely to include?

What would a researcher have to do to ensure that a new intelligence test is developed properly? What further considerations would have to be made in the development of a culture-fair test?

Tyson believes that people have several kinds of intelligence.Some have great musical capacity,some are talented verbally,some artistically,and so on.He would most likely use ____to examine intelligence test results to support his position.

Dr.Sandifer administers her test to a large group of high school seniors.She then administers the same test two weeks later to the same group and finds a high correlation between the first and second scores.This means that her test ____.

Cognitive ability is ____.

Cherie displays a mild intellectual disability.One way that she will differ from people with average intelligence is that she ____.

Which statement does not support Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences?

Katrina receives a 740 on her math SAT.She decides to take the SAT again and receives a 720.The reason the scores are so similar is because the SAT has high ____.

Silus is a talented author of fictional stories.He is also known for coming up with inventive advertising campaigns for his work clients.According to Sternberg's triarchic theory,Silus must rate highly in ____ intelligence.

In a study,math-proficient women are randomly divided into two groups.The first group is told that men usually do better on the type of math test the women are about to take.The second group is not told anything.Which outcome would you expect?

Shavonne,an elementary school teacher,is told that some of her students scored very high on a scholastic aptitude measure.Actually,these "high aptitude" students were chosen randomly,regardless of ability.During the next year of school,these students' IQ scores increased more than the scores of other students who were in Shavonne's class.According to your text,the most likely explanation for these students' IQ gain is ____.

Karin's new printer is printing too lightly.Even though she had never fixed a printer before,Karin figures out how to open the printer,remove the print cartridge,and replace it with a new one.The printing then works perfectly.We can assume that because Karin fixed the printer without previous experience,she relied on her ____intelligence.

Galya is from Russia and is given an intelligence test when she arrives in the United States.If the administrator of the test is conscious of the fact that Galya is from another culture,the test will be composed of ____.

Which statement is falseregarding intelligence tests?