Deck 9: A: Intelligence Intelligence

Question 1

Raven's Progressive Matrices can be used to measure intelligence of people who speak other languages.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Aptitude is similar to fluid intelligence,and achievement is similar to crystallized intelligence.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for children (WISC-IV)provides subscores that call attention to a child's relative strengths and weaknesses.​

Answer 3

True

Question 4

T​oday's young people do better than their parents or grandparents did on IQ tests.

Question 5

Research has demonstrated the importance of determining a child's learning style and then educating some children visually and others verbally.

Question 6

Doing well on a standardized test requires specialized abilities different from those of other tests.

Question 7

We can use IQ scores to explain why one child does better in school than another child does.

Question 8

​In most cases,fluid intelligence continues to increase throughout a person's lifetime.

Question 9

Intelligence quotient (IQ)tests try to predict an individual's performance in school and similar settings.

Question 10

​The first intelligence tests were based on decades of research on learning,memory,and cognition.

Question 11

Genetic differences have a bigger influence on IQ differences for impoverished children than for middle-class children.

Question 12

On average,girls get higher scores on IQ tests than boys do.

Question 13

A five-year-old who has a Stanford-Binet IQ score of 116 is more intelligent than an eight-year-old who also scores 116.

Question 14

People who do well on one cognitive test generally do well on other cognitive tests also.

Question 15

Anything that damages one mental ability also damages all other mental abilities.

Question 16

The goal of the first intelligence tests was to identify the LEAST capable children,those who could not learn from ordinary schooling.

Question 17

​Scores on tests of language,logic,spatial reasoning,and other cognitive abilities all correlate positively with one another.

Question 18

Although the mean score on an IQ test is 100,the most common score is a few points higher.

Question 19

Researchers have identified three genes that control most of the individual differences in IQ scores.

Question 20

The results comparing monozygotic and dizygotic twins imply a genetic contribution to differences in IQ performance.

Question 21

On average,people with high IQ scores have fewer car accidents than people with low IQ scores.

Question 22

If a test determined your score by adding the height of your head to the width of your head,it would have high reliability.

Question 23

The Flynn effect occurs only in Western,industrialized countries.

Question 24

Just expecting that your group does poorly on a certain kind of test increases the chance that you will do poorly.

Question 25

Charles Spearman identified a g factor in intelligence.The g stands for _______.​

Question 26

The early IQ tests developed in France were modified for English speakers and became the first important IQ test in the English language.This new version was the ____________________.

Question 27

The fact that people who do well on one kind of cognitive test generally do well on other kinds also prompted Charles Spearman to propose the ____ factor in intelligence.

Question 28

Raymond Cattell defined acquired and highly practiced skills in specific situations as ________ intelligence.

Question 29

In the IQ tests abbreviated WISC and WAIS,the W stands for ________.

Question 30

It is possible for a test to have low reliability and high validity.

Question 31

​If you want to give an IQ test to eight children,each of whom speaks a different language,the best choice of test is _______ _________ __________.

Question 32

According to Raymond Cattell,someone who is good at reasoning,using information,and quickly acquiring new skills is said to have much ________ intelligence.

Question 33

SAT scores have lower validity for predicting students' college grades at highly selective colleges than at colleges that admit almost anyone.

Question 34

Of the tests intended to be culture-fair or culture-reduced,the best known is Raven's _______ _______ test.

Question 35

The Flynn effect is mostly due to improved education.

Question 36

It is possible for a test to have high reliability and low validity.

Question 37

According to Raymond Cattell,intelligence has two major components,fluid intelligence and _________ intelligence.

Question 38

A question on a math test contains a diagram of an American football field.If this question is among the easiest for men to answer and among the hardest for women to answer,we can conclude that this test question is biased.

Question 39

If one group does better on some test,on average,than another group does,we can conclude that the test is biased.​

Question 40

If an aptitude test measures fluid intelligence,an achievement test measures ______ intelligence.

Question 41

Of the two types of twins,those resemble each other more strongly in their IQ scores are _____________ twins.​

Question 42

The phenomenon that performance on IQ tests has been increasing from generation to generation is known as the _______ effect

Question 43

If you have been told that your group tends to do poorly on a particular test,you become distracted and fail to perform as well as you could.This tendency is known as ______ _______.

Question 44

What would be the strongest evidence that an IQ test is biased against some group?

Question 45

The process of establishing rules for administering a test and for interpreting its scores is known as ____________________.​

Question 46

If a test is not useful for its intended purpose,it may or may not have high reliability,but we know it has low ______.​

Question 47

What types of interventions have been successful for improving children's IQ scores?

Question 48

If a researcher asks a group of people to take the same test repeatedly,the researcher is probably trying to determine the _________ of the test scores.

Question 49

Classifying someone as intellectually "gifted" implies that the person has an IQ score of at least _________.

Question 50

​Define reliability and validity.Can a test have high reliability and low validity or vice versa?

Question 51

On a standardized IQ test,the mean score is _________.

Question 52

If scores on a particular test are accurate for predicting students' grades in school,the test has high _________.

Question 53

Describe two explanations for the g factor in intelligence.

Question 54

If people of a particular group do better in school than their test scores predict,we say the test is __________.

Question 55

Since the early days of IQ tests,psychologists have periodically rewritten the tests.Their revisions have intentionally made the tests more ____________________ than they used to be.

Question 56

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Raven's Progressive Matrices for measuring intelligence,as compared to other common IQ tests such as the Stanford-Binet and Wechsler tests?

Question 57

If we give a test twice,and most people get approximately the same score the second time as they did the first time,then the test has high __________.

Question 58

Describe the Flynn effect and at least two possible explanations for it.

Question 59

Define stereotype threat,and describe the findings from Claude Steele's classic study on stereotype threat.​