Deck 6: Intelligence Testing

Question 1

Francis Galton conducted studies of family trees and devised a number of tests of sensory discrimination and reaction time to measure the components of intelligence.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Alfred Binet defined intelligence as the ability to learn or adapt to one?s environment

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Although the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale was used successfully in France, it lost most of its validity on being translated and adapted for American school children.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Scores on intelligence tests have substantial correlations with the rate or speed of learning new things.

Question 5

Two major group factors hypothesized by Philip Vernon are verbal-educational and practical-mechanical.

Question 6

According to Jean Piaget, a child comes to know and understand the environment by interacting with it.

Question 7

Both Robert Sternberg and Howard Gardner developed information-processing models of cognitive abilities.

Question 8

Individual tests of intelligence are more time-consuming than group tests, and they require more training on the part of the examiner.

Question 9

The first practical intelligence test was designed to identify gifted children in a public school system.

Question 10

The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale is a more appropriate measure of adult intelligence than the WISC-IV or the WPPSI-R.

Question 11

Individual intelligence tests are used more often than group intelligence tests for initial screening in educational and employment contexts.

Question 12

The fourth edition of the Stanford-Binet represented a marked departure from previous editions of the scale in terms of structure, administration, and scoring.

Question 13

The fourth edition of the Stanford-Binet is scored in terms of deviation IQs.

Question 14

The WAIS-III emphasizes verbal tasks more than the Stanford-Binet, but the adult version of the latter test is highly loaded with performance -type tasks.

Question 15

Analysis of subtest score scatter on the WAIS-III or the WISC-IV makes a significant contribution to the assignment of diagnostic labels to psychiatric patients.

Question 16

Group tests of intelligence are more economical than individual tests, in addition to being less reliable and valid.

Question 17

The first group intelligence test was based on the work of Arthur Otis.

Question 18

The most popular group intelligence tests are multi-level instruments spanning the entire range of school grades.

Question 19

Although scores on the Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test are affected by cultural experiences, the Raven Progressive Matrices and the Culture-Fair Intelligence Test are considered to be free from the effects of culture.

Question 20

The task of drawing a human figure, which appears on both the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale and the Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test, is perhaps the most culturally fair of all intelligence test tasks.

Question 21

The meaning of an IQ score varies with the particular intelligence test on which it is determined.

Question 22

The hereditary basis of intelligence was investigated initially by

A) Alfred Binet.
B) Francis Galton.
C) Herbert Spencer.
D) Lewis Terman.

Question 23

Which American psychologist conducted studies of sensory-motor tests as measures of intelligence?

A) J. McKeen Cattell
B) Francis Galton
C) E. L. Thorndike
D) John .B Watson

Question 24

The most successful intelligence test, in that it was able to forecast performance in school work, was devised by

A) Alfred Binet.
B) J. McKeen Cattell.
C) Francis Galton.
D) Robert S. Woodworth.

Question 25

The "father of intelligence testing" is a title most deserved by

A) Alfred Binet.
B) Leland Stanford.
C) Lewis Terman.
D) David Wechsler.

Question 26

Binet defined intelligence as the ability to

A) deduce relationships and to think abstractly.
B) judge, reason, and comprehend well.
C) learn and adapt to one?s environment
D) remember and process information

Question 27

The first Binet-Simon intelligence scale, consisting of 30 short tests arranged in order of ascending difficulty, was published in

A) 1905.
B) 1908.
C) 1911.
D) 1916.

Question 28

The Binet-Simon scales and the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale were both heavily loaded with

A) factor-pure tasks.
B) performance tasks.
C) sensory-motor tasks.
D) verbal tasks.

Question 29

On later versions of the Binet-Simon scales, an examinee's test score was expressed in terms of his or her

A) chronological age.
B) deviation IQ.
C) mental age.
D) ratio IQ.

Question 30

An assumption on which the Binet-Simon scales, the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, and other intelligence tests are based is that

A) examinees have had equal opportunities to learn the material on the test.
B) intelligence is a composite of general and specific abilities.
C) intelligence is more a product of environment than of heredity.
D) the standard deviation of mental ages is the same for every chronological age.

Question 31

The two major group factors in P. E. Vernon?s hierarchical theory of intelligence are

A) contents-operations and products-transformations.
B) convergent-divergent and inductive-deductive.
C) verbal-educational and practical-mechanical.
D) verbal-numerical and spatial-perceptual.

Question 32

In Piaget's theory of cognitive development, the period of concrete operations occurs between the ages of __________ years.

A) 0 and 2
B) 2 and 7
C) 7 and 11
D) 11 and 15

Question 33

Individual tests of intelligence are more commonly administered in

A) business and industry.
B) clinics and mental hospitals.
C) colleges and universities.
D) public schools.

Question 34

The notion of the __________ IQ, expressed as __________, was introduced on the 1916 version of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale.

A) deviation, 16z + 100
B) deviation, 100(MA/CA)
C) ratio, 16z + 100
D) ratio, 100(MA/CA)

Question 35

"All subtests passed" is to "all subtests failed" as

A) basal age is to ceiling age.
B) chronological age is to mental age.
C) ratio IQ is to deviation IQ.
D) Stanford-Binet is to Wechsler-Bellevue.

Question 36

The ratio IQ of an examinee whose chronological age is 8 years, 6 months and whose score on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale is equivalent to a mental age of 7 years, 8 months is

A) 90.
B) 91.
C) 110.
D) 111.

Question 37

A combination of the critical level on the Routing Test and the examinee's chronological age is used in determining the examinee's __________ on the fourth edition of the Stanford -Binet.

A) basal age
B) ceiling age
C) entry level
D) routing score

Question 38

Which of the following statements concerning the fifth edition of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale is not true?

A) It measures intelligence from age two through adulthood.
B) There are three short-term memory tests on the scale.
C) The overall score on the scale is expressed as a deviation IQ.
D) The tests are arranged in levels consisting of two items each.

Question 39

Both the 1960 Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised yield final scores in terms of

A) deviation IQs.
B) differential IQs.
C) ratio IQs.
D) raw IQs.

Question 40

Of the following Wechsler tests, the one that is most appropriate for testing an American child who is five years old is the

A) WB-I.
B) WAIS-R.
C) WISC-V.
D) WPPSI-III

Question 41

Of the following Wechsler tests, the one that is most appropriate for testing a typical American college freshman is the

A) WAIS-III.
B) WCFI.
C) WISC-IV.
D) WPPSI-III

Question 42

Which of the following is not one of the Indexes (Composite Indexes) on the WISC -IV

A) Processing Speed
B) Perceptual Reasoning
C) Working Memory
D) Verbal Abstraction

Question 43

The correct order for the following tests, beginning with the one designed for children as young as four years and ending with the one designed for adults as old as 75 years, is

A) WAIS-III, WISC-IV, WPPSI-III.
B) WISC-IV, WAIS-III, WPPSI-III.
C) WISC-IV, WPPSI-III, WAIS-III.
D) WPPSI-III, WISC-IV, WAIS-III.

Question 44

The WAIS-III yields separate __________ and __________ IQs as well as a total IQ

A) language, non-language
B) verbal, performance
C) verbal, quantitative
D) speed, power

Question 45

Terman is to Wechsler as __________ IQ is to __________ IQ.

A) individual, group
B) performance, verbal
C) ratio, deviation
D) speed, power

Question 46

Which of the following tests has the broadest chronological age and IQ range?

A) Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
B) Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III
C) Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-III
D) Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence-Revised

Question 47

The first standardized battery of performance tests was the

A) Arthur Point Scale of Performance Tests.
B) Leiter International Performance Scale.
C) Pintner-Paterson Scale of Performance Tests.
D) Wechsler-Bellevue Performance Scale.

Question 48

Individual intelligence test is to group intelligence test as __________ is to __________.

A) Binet, Woodworth
B) Terman, Otis
C) Thorndike, Jung
D) Wechsler, Terman

Question 49

Group tests are used more than individual tests for

A) analyzing the effects of organic brain damage.
B) initial screening in schools and businesses.
C) making clinical diagnoses.
D) obtaining information on special intellectual strengths and weaknesses.

Question 50

The first group intelligence test was the

A) Army Examination Alpha.
B) National Intelligence Scale.
C) Otis Quick-Scoring Mental Ability Test.
D) Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale.

Question 51

Culture-free tests of mental abilities are

A) invalid.
B) nonexistent.
C) nonverbal.
D) unreliable.

Question 52

On ?culture-fair? intelligence tests such as the Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test, the Raven Progressive Matrices, and the Culture Fair Intelligence Test, the effects of culture are probably

A) eliminated.
B) emphasized.
C) ignored.
D) minimized.

Question 53

Match the test for which they are responsible with one person :

-block designs

A) Kohs
B) Peabody

Question 54

Match the test for which they are responsible with one person :

-drawings of persons

A) Goodenough
B) Goldstein

Question 55

Match the test for which they are responsible with one person :

-form board

A) Seguin
B) Peabody

Question 56

Match the test for which they are responsible with one person :

-hearing handicapped

A) Hiskey
B) Goldstein

Question 57

Match the test for which they are responsible with one person :

-pencil mazes

A) Porteus
B) Peabody

Question 58

Match the test for which they are responsible with one person :

-progressive matrices

A) Raven
B) Goldstein

Question 59

Match the test for which they are responsible with one person :

-visually handicapped

A) Perkins
B)Peabody

Question 60

Describe several definitions of intelligence, and then write a comprehensive definition of the term by integrating the various definitions into a reasonable whole.

Question 61

What are the advantages and disadvantages of group tests of intelligence in comparison with individual tests of intelligence?

Question 62

Trace the development of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale from the first through the fourth editions.

Question 63

Compare the WPPSI-III, the WISC-IV, and the WAIS-III in terms of their structure, scoring, and age range for which each is appropriate.

Question 64

Compare the WISC-IV with the Stanford-Binet-V in terms of content, scoring, standardization, and psychometric qualities.

Question 65

What are the differences between intelligence tests designed for physically handicapped persons and those designed for non-handicapped persons? Illustrate by describing several tests in each category.