Exam 10: Section 2: Intelligence

The MOST likely reason why African Americans have lower intelligence scores than European Americans is that:

For hiring employees without previous experience, the most valid measure of future performance and learning is:

When you and Allyson took an intelligence test in the third grade, you two had the highest scores in the class. If your same class takes an intelligence test now that you're in the eleventh grade, it is likely that you and Allyson will:

The deviation IQ is a statistic obtained by:

Highly intelligent people _____ than those who are less intelligent.

Westerners regard people as intelligent when they speak _____; Africans regard people as intelligent when they speak _____.

According to the textbook:

Emotional intelligence is defined as the ability to reason and to use emotions to enhance:

Which statement regarding gifted children is true?

The Flynn effect refers to the fact that:

The WAIS consists of _____ core subtests.

The psychologist most noted for his contributions to the Stanford-Binet intelligence test is:

The ability to generate solutions that other people tend not to generate is called _____ intelligence.

Environmental factors that are experienced by all relevant members of a household are called the:

The theory that every task requires the combination of a general ability and skills that are specific to the task is known as the _____ theory of intelligence.

Alfred Binet believed that, over the lifetime, intelligence:

Supplementing the diets of pregnant women with fatty acids found in breastmilk has been found to enhance IQ by about _____ points.

Robert Sternberg argued that _____ intelligence best predicts job performance.

The debate between Louis Thurstone and Charles Spearman raged for many years until a technique called _____ revealed that each researcher's theory was partially correct.

Molly, age 12, earns straight A's in history, science, math, English, and geography. Her grades in these classes measure Molly's: