Exam 13: Intelligence

On an intelligence test,a five-year-old child is able to answer the questions that the average six-year-old can answer,but is not able to answer the seven-year-old questions.The child's IQ would be:

Scores on the verbal scale of the WAIS-I V are stable from the age of 20 to 74.This suggests that the scale has:

Terman's longitudinal study followed:

A psychologist tries out a new intelligence test on a child.One month later,she administers the same test to the same child and finds little correlation between the two administrations of the test.In testing terminology,it would be said that the test is:

Ofelia has a mild intellectual disability.She would be most likely to have an intelligence quotient of ____.

Chris Langan is remarkable.Given his ____,we would expect extraordinary career success for him.

The children whose parents undergo training to help them with discipline and communication scored higher on IQ tests than a control group.What is another advantage of parental training?

Two conclusions regarding the effects of Head Start can be made,and they are:

Based on the definition presented in your text,reliability means the same thing as:

A math teacher,wishing to include a practical question on a test,asks students to calculate how many games out of first place a baseball team is,given its won/lost record and that of the first-place team.After the test,a student complains that the question tested knowledge of baseball,not math.The student is criticizing the ____ of the question.

Laura has an IQ of 87 and has problems with self-care,social skills,and safety.Is Laura considered intellectually disabled?

Genetic factors account for about 50% of our intelligence.

Lewis Terman recommended that IQ scores be used to:

If you wanted to develop a school based on Gardner's theory of intelligence,you would provide students with training in:

To be classified as having a severe/profoundly intellectual disability,one of the requirements is an IQ of:

Howard Gardner defines intelligence as composed of:

Which of the following is a disadvantage to the general intelligence theory of Charles Spearman?

The median correlation in IQ scores for identical twins reared together is ____,while for fraternal twins reared together it is ____.

____ gives an indication of a child's intelligence by comparing her score on an intelligence test to the scores of average children her same age.

Most psychologists believe that ____ is what current intelligence tests measure.