Exam 9: C: Intelligence and Iq Testing

Women tend to outscore men on some ____ tasks.

The first intelligence test,created by Binet and Simon,was originally intended to be a ____.

____ twins are found to have the most similar IQs.

____,the social movement headed by psychologists that gained momentum in the early 1900s in the United States,pushed for sterilization plans for those of low IQ.

____was a key figure in the history of IQ testing in the United States,and he even administered (with results in the mentally retarded range)a translated version to the mayor of Chicago.

____ hypothesized that there was one single common factor (g)that accounted for the intellectual differences among people.

The brain region found to be most active in tasks that involve planning,reasoning,and short-term memory is the ____.

The tendency to underperform on standardized tests due to perceptions that you come from a group that has fared poorly on such tests and the fear of validating those perceptions is called ____.

Items asking you to arrange blocks into a particular design are found on the ____ subscale section of the WAIS.

The category of "intellectual disability" is associated with IQ scores falling under ____.

An item asking you about the temperature at which water boils would be found on the ____ subscale section of the WAIS.

____ refers to the accumulated knowledge we acquire as we age.

Gardner's intelligence type that is associated with the ability to excel in the arena of sports is ____.

The ____ is the most widely used intelligence test for adults.

Items on the WAIS asking you to repeat random digits forward and backward are found on the ____ subscale section of the WAIS.

____ believed that genius runs in families,and he created family study research designs to further investigate his claims.

The phenomenon of IQ test scores rising three points per decade is referred to as the ____.

____ suggested that intelligence could be composed of musical ability,athletic ability,interpersonal skills,and public speaking ability.

Stern's formula for calculating IQ is ____.

Because the correlation between SAT scores and college grades is approximately 0.3 or so,this test can be seen to have low ____.