Deck 10: Section 6 : Intelligence

Question 1

Highly emotionally intelligent people experience:

A)better romantic relationships, better workplace relationships, and less dissatisfaction with their lives overall.
B)better romantic relationships, less successful workplace relationships, and less dissatisfaction with their lives overall.
C)less successful romantic relationships, better workplace relationships, and less dissatisfaction with their lives overall.
D)better romantic relationships, better workplace relationships, and more dissatisfaction with their lives overall.

Answer 1

better romantic relationships, better workplace relationships, and less dissatisfaction with their lives overall.

Question 2

Which psychologist proposed the existence of a general intelligence, or g?

A)Alfred Binet
B)Charles Spearman
C)Louis Thurstone
D)William Stern

Answer 2

Charles Spearman

Question 3

The best predictor of intelligence score is:

A)race.
B)socioeconomic status.
C)whether or not a person is a college graduate.
D)how quickly a person talks.

Answer 3

socioeconomic status.

Question 4

Nick works at a holiday shop and wraps gifts all day. He has developed complex ways of combining previous cut scraps of wrapping paper for future use. This best illustrates _____ intelligence.

A)analytical
B)inductive
C)practical
D)creative

Question 5

Which statement is FALSE?

A)Women routinely outscore men on tests of spatial memory.
B)Whites routinely outscore Latinos on intelligence tests.
C)Men routinely outscore women in abstract mathematical domains.
D)Latinos routinely outscore Blacks on intelligence tests.

Question 6

A 4-year-old child with the mental age of 5 has a ratio IQ of:

A)80.
B)100.
C)110.
D)125.

Question 7

Monozygotic twins share _____ percent of their genes, while dizygotic twins share _____ percent.

A)about 50; 100
B)100; about 50
C)100; about 25
D)about 50; about 50

Question 8

It is important to distinguish between shared and unshared environments when determining what type of experiences contribute to intelligence because:

A)environmental factors have more influence on intelligence than genes.
B)genes have more influence on intelligence than environment.
C)two people who live in the same household will have some but not all experiences in common.
D)genes and environment contribute equally to intelligence.

Question 9

During your lifetime, your _____ intelligence stays relatively stable, whereas your _____ intelligence typically changes.

A)group; relative
B)absolute; relative
C)individual; absolute
D)relative; absolute

Question 10

Charlotte has a test in her geography class on world capitals. This test is an example of assessing _____ intelligence.

A)crystallized
B)fluid
C)practical
D)spatial and mathematical

Question 11

In order to compare IQ scores of people of different ages, researchers compute the _____ for children and the _____ for adults.

A)ratio IQ; Stanford-Binet
B)ratio IQ; deviation IQ
C)deviation IQ; ratio IQ
D)deviation IQ; WAIS-IV

Question 12

Simon and Binet developed the IQ test as a:

A)measure of the contents of intelligence.
B)measure of a child's aptitude for learning.
C)justification for racism and xenophobia.
D)measure of academic achievement.

Question 13

The _____ is a statistical measure that indicates how much people's IQ scores differ because of differences in their genetics.

A)g factor
B)deviation IQ
C)heritability coefficient
D)ratio IQ

Question 14

An IQ score is highly correlated with all of these EXCEPT:

A)job performance.
B)education.
C)income.
D)physical attractiveness.

Question 15

The hypothesis that intelligence is a unitary factor dependent on a single general ability (g) is:

A)the modern dominant view of intelligence.
B)completely ignored by modern research.
C)somewhat true, in that intelligence is determined by an overall g factor and various subfactors.
D)still believed by many psychologists, despite its falsification by Louis Thurstone.