Exam 31: Introduction to Intelligence

Which of the following observations provides the best evidence that intelligence test scores are influenced by environment?

With increasing age,adopted children's verbal ability scores become ________ positively correlated with their adoptive parents' scores and ________ positively correlated with their biological parents' scores.

Experts who defend intelligence tests against the charge of being culturally biased and discriminatory would be most likely to highlight the ________ of intelligence tests.

When 200 researchers pooled their data on 126,559 people,all the gene variations analyzed accounted for a very ________ percentage of the differences in educational achievement among individuals in this group.This suggests that there are ________ genes that contribute to intelligence.

On which of the following tasks are men most likely to outperform women?

Twenty-two-year-old Teresa is a Black woman scheduled to take the GRE.To ensure her best performance and reduce the chance of stereotype threat,which of the following situations would you recommend for her?

The heritability of intelligence is highest among

In one massive study of 11,000 twin pairs in four countries,the heritability of general intelligence was found to be greatest during

Compared with North American students,Asian students score ________ on math achievement tests and spend ________ time studying math in school.

Which of the following observations provides the BEST evidence that intelligence test scores are influenced by environment?

Intelligence test scores are LEAST similar for

Girls are most likely to outperform boys in a

Tahir teaches ninth-grade science classes in a high school located in an economically deprived area of a large city.He stresses to his students that their effort is just as important,if not more important,than their current ability because their brain is still growing and developing.Tahir is trying to help his students through fostering

Males' reading ability scores vary ________ than females' scores,and males' math test performance scores vary ________ than females' scores.

Compared with men,women are ________ capable of remembering objects' spatial locations and they are ________ sensitive to taste and color.

Interventions that promote intelligence teach early teens that the brain is like a muscle that strengthens with use.This idea is designed to encourage teens to view intelligence as

Sarah comes from a loving but poor family.Her family wants her to do well in school,and so has enrolled her in a program to boost her cognitive and social skills,called

Dr.Abreu believes that intelligence is determined not by one gene but by many interacting genes.Dr.Abreu believes that intelligence is

J.McVicker Hunt observed children in an Iranian orphanage being raised in an extremely deprived environment.These children were passive and cognitively immature.Hunt's successful training program for Iranian caregivers encouraged them to engage in ________ with these infants.

Boys are most likely to outperform girls in a