Exam 9: Intelligence and Intelligence Assessment

A person taking the WAIS-IV would receive a

You are sitting in your time machine, trying to decide what date and location to set. You want to go back to the earliest time and place that assessment was widely used. You should set the dial to send you back about ________ years to the country of ________.

According to the textbook, the primary goal of psychological assessment is to

Charles Spearman's belief that there is a factor of general intelligence underlying all intelligent performance was based on his finding that

All of the following are types of validity EXCEPT for

In Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence, three types of intelligence are suggested, including ________, ________, and ________.

Being a very creative person, you have decided to develop a test of creativity. When developing the norms for the test, you should make sure that the members of the comparison group

Because of the strict provisions of her religion, a child learns to listen respectfully to authority figures rather than expressing her own opinions. If this child goes to school in which students are expected to speak assertively, she is likely to

According to research conducted in 2011, people with average ________ intelligence showed increased activity in the frontal lobes of their brains when problems they were solving grew harder. People with higher levels of the same type of intelligence did not show the same increases in frontal lobe activity.

Howard Gardner's view of intelligence includes ________ different types, and does not specifically mention ________ intelligence as one of the types.

Applying Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence, when people are solving anagram problems they are most likely using________ components to manipulate the letters in their heads and ________ components to devise strategies for finding solutions.

Henry Goddard's argument on the genetic inferiority of certain groups was further reinforced when

In a study described in the textbook, researchers assessed the emotional intelligence of handball players by attempting to elicit an emotional reaction in their participants. This was attempted by having them

Using the latest version of the Stanford-Binet test, if someone were to receive an IQ score of 109 today, it would mean that the person

The WAIS-IV, WISC-IV, and the WPPSI-III

When you ask your teacher how the class did on the test, all you are told is that the results can be described by a bell-shaped curve, or normal distribution. From this, you should be able to deduce that most student scores

A boy who is 6 years old has just tested at a mental age of 5. What would his IQ be, using Terman's formula for deriving this number?

In general, it would be safest to say that a test

If you had assisted Alfred Binet in the development of his intelligence test, you would have taken care to develop test questions that

Suppose a researcher wants to determine whether a test is reliable in terms of its internal consistency. The best way to do this would be by