Question 1

Jake is sympathetic and considerate of his friends' moods. He really identifies with their feelings and readily understands their point of view. He is well-known around campus, and he has great relationships with his classmates and professors. Which area of the multiple intelligences model does this exemplify?

Accepted Answer

A)   interpersonal
B)   intrapersonal
C)   linguistic
D)   naturalist A

Question 2

What kind of professional would be most qualified to administer an intelligence test?

Accepted Answer

A)   A board-certified psychiatrist.
B)   A professional trained in psychology.
C)   A social worker who operates in a high school or middle school.
D)   An employee of the Social Security administration. B

Question 3

The type of intelligence that involves seeing complex relationships and solving problems is ________ intelligence.

Accepted Answer

A)   crystallized
B)   intrapersonal
C)   applied
D)   fluid D

Question 4

What is the Flynn effect?

Accepted Answer

A)   Once a person knows his IQ, he stops trying to excel academically.
B)   The idea that standard intelligence tests are flawed when they are used to compare ethnic groups.
C)   The observation that each generation has a significantly higher IQ than the previous generation.
D)   The observation that each generation has a significantly lower IQ than the previous generation.

Question 5

Kai cuts her foot while hiking. She forgot to pack bandages, but she has a tube of superglue and uses that to seal the wound. Kai's ability to invent a solution uses the ________ intelligence component of the triarchic theory of intelligence.

Accepted Answer

A)   analytic
B)   creative
C)   fluid
D)   crystallized

Question 6

How do humans acquire language? Identify one factor influencing language acquisition.

Accepted Answer

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Question 7

Which individual was asked by the French government to create an assessment tool - an intelligence test, of sorts - that would be used to identify schoolchildren who would be more likely to have difficulty in school?

Accepted Answer

A)   Louis Terman
B)   Marcelle Curie
C)   Sir Francis Galton
D)   Alfred Binet

Question 8

Although her reading skills are just fine, Beatriz has difficulty with her writing. Her teachers have noticed that no matter how hard she tries and how much they work with her the handwriting on her papers is almost illegible. Further, although she has great thoughts and understands concepts at a high level, she is unable to put them into a cohesive written paper. Beatriz may suffer from ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   dyslexia
B)   dysgraphia
C)   dyscalculia
D)   intellectual disability

Question 9

List the stages of language and communication development in order of age of acquisition that occur between birth and 18-months old.

Accepted Answer

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Question 10

Which statistic is a measure of how data are dispersed in a population and can be used to give context to larger data sets?

Accepted Answer

A)   variability
B)   standard deviation
C)   heritability
D)   correlation coefficient

Question 11

Which pair of individuals is most likely to have the highest similarity in their IQ scores?

Accepted Answer

A)   Marcus and Maria are identical twins who were separated at birth and raised in different families.
B)   Jerry and Jerica are fraternal twins who were raised in the same home.
C)   Vondra and Victoria are a mother and daughter who have lived together for all of Victoria's 15 years.
D)   Annabeth and Andre are half-siblings who have the same father but different mothers. They've lived together since they were 3 and 5 years old, respectively.

Question 12

Samara meets a nurse. She immediately assumes he is able to help care for sick people, works long hours, and dispenses advice about illness because her ________ schema suggests that nurses behave this way.

Accepted Answer

A)   artificial
B)   event
C)   role
D)   script

Question 13

Aram is proficient in playing a number of instruments and can easily learn new songs and rhythms. This exemplifies ________ intelligence from the multiple intelligences theory.

Accepted Answer

A)   linguistic
B)   logical-mathematical
C)   musical
D)   spatial

Question 14

A(an) ________ is a basic sound unit of a given language.

Accepted Answer

A)   syllable
B)   morpheme
C)   phoneme
D)   syntactic unit

Question 15

________ are categories or groupings of linguistic information, images, ideas, or memories, such as life experiences.

Accepted Answer

A)   Beliefs
B)   Concepts
C)   Emotions
D)   Values

Question 16

Knowing what a rainbow looks like because you have seen a rainbow is an example of a(n) ________ concept.

Accepted Answer

A)   modular
B)   natural
C)   prototypical
D)   artificial

Question 17

Compare and contrast interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.

Accepted Answer

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Question 18

In Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory, ________ intelligence and ________ intelligence are often combined into a single type: emotional intelligence.

Accepted Answer

A)   interpersonal; intrapersonal
B)   intrapersonal; naturalist
C)   logical-mathematical; interpersonal
D)   musical; linguistic

Question 19

The analytical intelligence component of the triarchic theory of intelligence is demonstrated by the ability to ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   analyze, evaluate, judge, compare, and contrast
B)   produce new products or ideas and invent novel solutions to a problem
C)   provide correct or established answers to a problem
D)   think outside the box to arrive at novel solutions to a problem

Question 20

Anwar is hiking in the woods and he gets lost. He spends several days trying to find his way back to his basecamp, but he has the knowledge to gather wood, start a fire, and keep himself warm at night. He is also able to identify local berries and mushrooms growing that he can eat without being poisoned. Anwar is demonstrating ________ intelligence from the triarchic theory.

Accepted Answer

A)   analytic
B)   fluid
C)   functional
D)   practical

Exam 7: Thinking and Intelligence