Exam 9: Intelligence

Sternberg developed tests to measure three types of intelligence: creative, practical, and analytical. Critics argue

Which of the following has been proposed as the underlying skill that could account for g?

On a new test of academic ability, people who get high scores one time generally get high scores again if they take the test a second time. However, students who do well on this test are not much more likely (nor less likely) than other students to do well in school. Therefore the test has __________ reliability and __________ validity.

An item on the Stanford-Binet IQ test designated as "age 8"

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

An advantage of Raven's Progressive Matrices is that it

The Flynn effect is the phenomenon that?

Certain IQ tests, such as the WISC-IV, include separate tests for specialized abilities. Scores on all those separate tests are positively correlated with one another. These positive correlations are considered evidence in favor of

Professor Plum devises a new personality test and administers it to a large and representative group of people, finding a wide distribution of scores on the test. Two months later he administers a second form of the same test to the same people and finds that most people receive almost the same score they had the first time. He should conclude that the test has

The general part of the SAT is highly correlated with the SAT achievement tests. For that reason,

The Flynn effect is the phenomenon that

The original intelligence tests were developed to predict school performance and were based on which theory, if any?

The WISC-IV is a test of __________ developed for __________.

If a test has high reliability,

In analyzing the cognitive processes of intelligence, Sternberg identified the components of encoding information, drawing inferences, mapping relationships, and applying the knowledge. After developing a test to measure these specific processes he discovered

Descriptions of the frequencies at which particular scores in an IQ test occur are called

The __________ is the phenomenon in which mean IQ scores rise from one generation to the next, unless the test is made more difficult.

Since the early days of IQ tests, psychologists have periodically rewritten the tests. Their revisions have intentionally made the tests more __________ than they used to be.

A psychologist administering the Stanford-Binet IQ test to an 8-year-old would

Critics of the notion of a single kind of intelligence argue that psychologists find strong evidence for a "g" factor in intelligence because