Question 1

Educators who wish to affirm children's special talents and challenge them at the frontiers of their understanding advocate appropriate

Accepted Answer

A)   higher-level conceptual skills.
B)   development of cohort skills.
C)   placement suited to each child's talent.
D)   development of fluid skills. C

Question 2

A group of people sharing a common characteristic,such as being from a given time period,is called

Accepted Answer

A)   a cohort group.
B)   a crystallized group.
C)   a fluid group.
D)   the Flynn effect. A

Question 3

Boys outnumber girls at extremely ________ levels of verbal fluency and at extremely ________ levels of solving complex math problems.

Accepted Answer

A)   high;low
B)   low;low
C)   high;high
D)   low;high D

Question 4

Ian Deary and his colleagues retested 80-year-old Scots,using an intelligence test the Scots had taken as 11-year-olds.The procedure used in this research best illustrates a

Accepted Answer

A)   crystallized study.
B)   longitudinal study.
C)   cohort study
D)   cross-sectional study.

Question 5

The relatively narrow range of intelligence among the college seniors who take the Graduate Record Exam serves to ________ the ________ of the Graduate Record Exam.

Accepted Answer

A)   increase;reliability
B)   decrease;predictive validity
C)   increase;the normal distribution
D)   decrease;the standardization sample

Question 6

Factor analysis is a statistical procedure that can be used to

Accepted Answer

A)   identify multiple intelligences.
B)   predict performance on various complex skills.
C)   identify clusters of closely related test items.
D)   correlate individuals' skills in evolutionarily familiar situations.

Question 7

Miguel is a published philosopher.He regularly spends time in a monastery to ponder large questions about life,death,and human existence.According to Gardner,Miguel is demonstrating ________ intelligence.

Accepted Answer

A)   emotional
B)   interpersonal
C)   existential
D)   analytical

Question 8

The nineteenth-century English scientist Sir Francis Galton believed that

Accepted Answer

A)   mental abilities cannot be measured.
B)   superior intelligence is biologically inherited.
C)   academic aptitude measures chronological age rather than mental age.
D)   intelligence test performance depends on motivation rather than ability.

Question 9

Research on the determinants of intelligence indicates that

Accepted Answer

A)   interest in the heritability of intelligence has declined significantly during the past decade.
B)   both genes and environment have some influence on intelligence scores.
C)   there are no scientific methods for assessing the heritability of intelligence.
D)   there is no relationship between people's position on the determinants of intelligence and their social or political attitudes.

Question 10

When Phoebe strongly disagrees with her sister's opinion,she effectively controls her own anger and responds with empathy to her sister's frustration regarding their dispute.Her behavior best illustrates

Accepted Answer

A)   factor analysis.
B)   analytic intelligence.
C)   practical intelligence.
D)   emotional intelligence.

Question 11

The ability to learn from experience,solve problems,and use knowledge to adapt to new situations is known as

Accepted Answer

A)   emotional intelligence.
B)   savant syndrome.
C)   intelligence.
D)   factor analysis.

Question 12

Intelligence scores are most likely to be stable over a one-year period for a

Accepted Answer

A)   preschool student whose intelligence test score is 80.
B)   second-grade student whose intelligence test score is 125.
C)   sixth-grade student whose intelligence test score is 115.
D)   tenth-grade student whose intelligence test score is 95.

Question 13

Research indicates that Head Start programs

Accepted Answer

A)   fail to produce even short-term improvements in participants' mental skills.
B)   contribute to dramatic long-term gains in participants' intelligence test scores.
C)   promote aptitude benefits,which generally dissipate over time.
D)   are beneficial only to participants from very intellectually stimulating home environments.

Question 14

Dr.Dawson is conducting a study with military veterans from the Vietnam and Gulf Wars.He plans to evaluate them every year for 10 years to see if those with PTSD have a more pronounced decline in mental abilities and overall memory.This is a(n)________ study.

Accepted Answer

A)   longitudinal
B)   experimental
C)   cross-sectional
D)   chronological

Question 15

Research on racial differences in intelligence indicates that

Accepted Answer

A)   Black Americans typically receive higher scores than White Americans on nonverbal intelligence test questions.
B)   there is currently no difference in the average academic aptitude test scores received by Black and White Americans.
C)   on average,Black Americans perform less well than White Americans on intelligence tests.
D)   among Black Americans,those with the most African ancestry receive the highest intelligence scores.

Question 16

Which of the following observations provides the BEST evidence that intelligence test scores are influenced by environment?

Accepted Answer

A)   Identical twins raised apart are less similar in their intelligence scores than identical twins raised together.
B)   The intelligence scores of children are positively correlated with those of their parents.
C)   Identical twins are more similar in their intelligence scores than are fraternal twins.
D)   The intelligence scores of siblings raised together are positively correlated.

Question 17

David's motorcycle would occasionally lose power or stall out.David thought about possible solutions: changing the ignition wires,putting an additive in the gas tank,or taking his motorcycle to a mechanic and letting the mechanic figure out the problem.David decided to put an additive in the gas tank to see if that corrected the problem.Which of Sternberg's intelligences was David using?

Accepted Answer

A)   naturalist intelligence
B)   creative intelligence
C)   analytical intelligence
D)   logical-mathematical intelligence

Question 18

Tahir teaches ninth-grade science classes in a high school located in an economically deprived area of a large city.He stresses to his students that the brain is like a muscle;it grows stronger with use as neuron connections grow.He praises effort rather than ability.Tahir is trying to help his students through fostering

Accepted Answer

A)   their general intelligence.
B)   epigenetics.
C)   their growth mind-set.
D)   polygenetics.

Question 19

Twenty-two-year-old Teresa is a Black woman scheduled to take the GRE.To ensure her best performance and reduce the chance of stereotype threat,which of the following situations would you recommend for her?

Accepted Answer

A)   She should take the test in a room with both men and women present.
B)   A Black woman should administer the test.
C)   A White woman should administer the test.
D)   Teresa will not be influenced by the race of the people administering or taking the test.

Question 20

To qualify for the office manager's job,55-year-old Mariel must take a series of psychological tests.Her performance on the test of ________ is likely to be poorer than if she had taken it as a 25-year-old.

Accepted Answer

A)   general knowledge
B)   spelling
C)   abstract reasoning
D)   vocabulary

Exam 11: Intelligence