Exam 10: Section 4 : Intelligence

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People with high emotional intelligence tend to exhibit greater neural activity when attempting to recognize a facial expression than people with low emotional intelligence.

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Robert Sternberg believed there are three kinds of intelligence: analytic intelligence, creative intelligence, and practical intelligence.

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Robert Sternberg believed that creative intelligence was the best single predictor of job performance.

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About 70 percent of people with intellectual disabilities are female.

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When Asian American women are reminded of their ethnicity, they tend to do better on tests in mathematics.

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Gifted children tend to be "single gifted," having exceptional skill in only one specialized domain of intelligence.

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The heritability coefficient of intelligence is lower in children from low-SES families than in children from high-SES families.

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Steele and Aronson (1995) found that African American students perform more poorly on tests if they are asked to report their race at the top of the answer sheet.

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The correlation between IQ score and academic performance is approximately r = .5 across a wide range of people and situations.

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Robert Sternberg defined creative intelligence as the ability to generate solutions that other people do not typically think of.

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Women tend to outscore men on tests of verbal comprehension.

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Being raised in a low-SES home can negatively impact brain development.

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Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon developed the first intelligence test in order to identify children who needed remedial education.

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First-born children tend to have higher IQs than their later-born siblings.

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The first intelligence tests were designed to measure achievement, not aptitude.

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As the number and variety of nonshared experiences in a population increases, the heritability coefficient of intelligence will decrease.

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Cognitive speediness is one of Louis Thurstone's primary mental abilities.

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Modafinil is an amphetamine salt.

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Fraternal twins share more genetic material than biological siblings (two parents in common) who are not born at the same time.

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The average difference in intelligence scores between races is considerably more than the average difference in intelligence scores within races.

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