Deck 29: Intelligence

Question 1

Logical definitions of intelligence focus on:

A) what the word 'intelligence' implies to people. Such an approach recognizes that different groups of people will use different words and abilities to describe intelligence.
B) how intelligence is logically structured in terms of brain structure and hemisphere localization.
C) how people go about logical day-to-day tasks and make logical decisions to solve problems.
D) None of the above.

Answer 1

what the word 'intelligence' implies to people. Such an approach recognizes that different groups of people will use different words and abilities to describe intelligence.

Question 2

Alexithymia is the:

A) inability to compute numbers in one's head without the aid of pen and paper.
B) inability to read one's own emotional state.
C) inability to remember information for more than three seconds.
D) None of the above.

Answer 2

inability to read one's own emotional state.

Question 3

According to John Horn & Raymond Cattell (1966), what is fluid intelligence (gf)?

A) The ability to deal with liquid measures.
B) The ability to think logically and to relate concepts through reasoning.
C) The part of intelligence that relates to creativity and artistic skills.
D) None of the above.

Answer 3

The ability to think logically and to relate concepts through reasoning.

Question 4

Longitudinal studies are a useful method for studying intelligence as they:

A) allow us to observe how intellectual ability develops and how life events might impact on intelligence.
B) allow us to observe which parts of the brain deteriorate with time.
C) give us the opportunity to see that children who spend the longest in education are generally the most intelligent.
D) None of the above.

Question 5

Cross-cultural studies of intelligence allow researchers to:

A) see how parents from different cultures influence the intellect of their children.
B) observe how our intelligence changes when we move from one country to another.
C) compare intellectual ability across different groups of people worldwide.
D) None of the above.

Question 6

How does Howard Gardner define natural intelligence?

A) It is the natural intellect we inherit from our parents via genetic transference.
B) It is the natural ability we have to do well in novel situations.
C) It is the ability to classify plants and animals in terms of their usefulness and potential danger for survival purposes.
D) None of the above.

Question 7

What are the three aspects of intelligence according to Robert Sternberg's (1988) triarchic theory of intelligence?

A) Analytic intelligence, creative intelligence and practical intelligence.
B) Mathematical intelligence, language ability and good reasoning skills.
C) Flexibility, memory and intuition.
D) None of the above.

Question 8

According to Daniel Goleman, what is emotional intelligence?

A) The ability to recognize one's own and other people's emotions and act on these appropriately.
B) Being able to recognize which emotion to show in a wide diversity of social situations to manipulate a positive outcome.
C) Being able to recognize emotional responses in others to gain a benefit to ourselves.
D) None of the above.

Question 9

What in general do long-term studies of intellectual ability tell us about the stability of intelligence?

A) That as we get older through experience we get smarter.
B) That as we get older our intellectual capacity decreases in general.
C) That as we get older some of our abilities remain stable while others decline.
D) None of the above.

Question 10

Thurstone's theory of intelligence suggested that intelligence includes:

A) seven primary mental abilities.
B) S factors.
C) performance and effort.
D) G factor.

Question 11

What has research shown in terms of intelligence and working in a job?

A) That intelligence plays no role in your experience at work.
B) That the higher your intelligence the more job stress you will experience.
C) That the higher your intelligence the less job stress you will experience.
D) None of the above.

Question 12

What is savant syndrome?

A) Individuals who score poorly on intelligence tests in general but who possess exceptional skills in one ability.
B) Individuals who score poorly on intelligence tests but who have the ability to move objects just by thinking about them.
C) Individuals who possess exceptional skills in all abilities.
D) None of the above.

Question 13

Intelligent quotient (IQ) is defined:

A) as the ration of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 (IQ= ma/ca x 100).
B) as the ration of cultural age (cla) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 (IQ= cla/ca x 100).
C) as the ration of age of first attendance at school (sa) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 (IQ= sa/ca x 100).
D) None of the above.

Question 14

How did John Locke, the British philosopher, see intelligence?

A) He saw the mind as a blank piece of paper that was to be filled through experience and interaction with one's environment.
B) He said that intelligence was mostly God-given.
C) He said individuals had inborn or innate knowledge systems that are inherited.
D) None of the above.

Question 15

Guilford visualized intelligence as :

A) having a single unitary pool of intellectual ability.
B) having a number of subcomponents, all of which contributed to an individual's intellectual ability.
C) a system of isolated skills, all of which went under the general heading of 'intelligence'.
D) None of the above.

Question 16

Miller & Vernon (1992) have suggested that:

A) 25% of the variation evident in people's performance on intelligence tests are accounted by differences in cognitive processes.
B) 50% of the variation evident in people's performance on intelligence tests are accounted by differences in cognitive processes.
C) 75% of the variation evident in people's performance on intelligence tests are accounted by differences in cognitive processes.
D) 33% of the variation evident in people's performance on intelligence tests are accounted by differences in cognitive processes.

Question 17

It is widely accepted that:

A) females score higher on average than males on tests of verbal abilities and that males score higher on average than females on tests of mathematical and spatial abilities.
B) females score higher on average than males on tests of reasoning abilities and that males score higher on average than females on tests of practical abilities.
C) females score lower on average than males on tests of verbal abilities and that males score lower on average than females on tests of mathematical and spatial abilities.
D) A and B

Question 18

Longitudinal studies on intelligence:

A) enable researchers to gather many participants and keep adding to them over a long time span.
B) enable the comparison of different groups of children at different life stages across different countries.
C) enable the observation of the development of intelligence over a time period.
D) None of the above.

Question 19

What is general intelligence (g)?

A) The old term for IQ.
B) The new term for IQ.
C) A general intelligence that is believed to underlie specific mental abilities.
D) A general pool of intelligence that is specific to each cultural group.