Exam 10: Section 2: Intelligence

A _____ approach to describing middle-level abilities starts with a broad survey of human abilities and then looks to see which of these abilities intelligence tests measure-or fail to measure.

Education typically produces _____ in intelligence.

If an Asian American woman is reminded of her gender right before taking a math test, she will _____; if she is reminded of her ethnicity right before taking the test, she will _____.

Robert Sternberg argued that standardized intelligence tests primarily measure _____ intelligence.

The creators of the first intelligence tests were:

Which statement is true?

_____ intelligence is likely to be stable over time; _____ intelligence typically changes over the course of a lifetime.

The heritability coefficient of intelligence is roughly:

Isabel is 3 years old. Her mental age is 5. What is her ratio IQ?

Intelligence tests measure:

Environmental factors that are not experienced by all relevant members of a household are called the:

Fraternal twins:

Arnold and Ernie are brothers, ages 12 and 10, respectively, who share many common interests. As they increase in age, their intelligence test scores will become:

Which statement about gifted children is FALSE?

Joey is 10 years old. His score on an intelligence test is the same as that of an 8-year-old. We can conclude that Joey:

In the three-level hierarchy of intelligence tests, _____ is/are at the top, _____ is/are in the middle, and _____ is/are at the bottom.

According to Thurstone's theory, the primary mental abilities:

Thousands of years ago, a highly advanced civilization in a galaxy far away decided to clone its most intelligent and fearless soldier. These self-replicating clones were then sent out to populate the multiverse. Over time, the cloned soldiers eradicated all other intelligent beings in the multiverse. As a result, the heritability coefficient of intelligence in the multiverse is:

Most educational programs:

The heritability of intelligence among older people is _____ than the heritability among young people, perhaps because _____.