Exam 9: A: Intelligence Intelligence

We can use IQ scores to explain why one child does better in school than another child does.

The process of establishing rules for administering a test and for interpreting its scores is known as ____________________.​

​The first intelligence tests were based on decades of research on learning,memory,and cognition.

If scores on a particular test are accurate for predicting students' grades in school,the test has high _________.

​Define reliability and validity.Can a test have high reliability and low validity or vice versa?

​In most cases,fluid intelligence continues to increase throughout a person's lifetime.

Raymond Cattell defined acquired and highly practiced skills in specific situations as ________ intelligence.

Raven's Progressive Matrices can be used to measure intelligence of people who speak other languages.

A five-year-old who has a Stanford-Binet IQ score of 116 is more intelligent than an eight-year-old who also scores 116.

What types of interventions have been successful for improving children's IQ scores?

Just expecting that your group does poorly on a certain kind of test increases the chance that you will do poorly.

The phenomenon that performance on IQ tests has been increasing from generation to generation is known as the _______ effect

The goal of the first intelligence tests was to identify the LEAST capable children,those who could not learn from ordinary schooling.

In the IQ tests abbreviated WISC and WAIS,the W stands for ________.

​If you want to give an IQ test to eight children,each of whom speaks a different language,the best choice of test is _______ _________ __________.

Aptitude is similar to fluid intelligence,and achievement is similar to crystallized intelligence.

The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for children (WISC-IV)provides subscores that call attention to a child's relative strengths and weaknesses.​

Anything that damages one mental ability also damages all other mental abilities.

Although the mean score on an IQ test is 100,the most common score is a few points higher.

According to Raymond Cattell,someone who is good at reasoning,using information,and quickly acquiring new skills is said to have much ________ intelligence.