Unit Eleven: Intelligence and Individual Differences

Question 1

When people complete intelligence tests, which area of the brain becomes especially active?

Accepted Answer

the frontal lobe

Question 2

Jake (an african american) got a lower score taking the SATs with a white proctor, why is this?

Accepted Answer

stereotype threat

Question 3

Which is the most widely used intelligence test?

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WAIS

Question 4

Who is most likely to be critiqued for their theory of intelligence to a broad range of talents

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Howard Gardner

Question 5

8th graders who outscore high school seniors on a aptitude test had begun_____ at an early age.

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reading

Question 6

Factor analysis is a statistical procedure that can be used to

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identify clusters of closely related test items.

Question 7

Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group.

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standardization

Question 8

Racial groups ________ in their average intelligence test scores.

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differ

Question 9

Achievement tests test_________.

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what a person has learned

Question 10

A normal curve__________.

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looks like a bell

Question 11

The Stanford-Binet, WAIS, and WISC tests are all types of

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general intelligence tests.

Question 12

Postmortem brain analyses reveal that highly educated people have ________ when they die.

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more synapses

Question 13

Which best describes how a test shows consistent results when retesting?

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reliability

Question 14

Mental age can be defined as______.

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level of performance associated with a chronological age

Question 15

Which best expresses emotional intelligence?

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always knowing what to say when a friend is distressed

Question 16

Which of the following is true of people who score high on aptitude tests?

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None of these statements are true

Question 17

Charles Spearman's g-factor refers to ______.

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general intelligence

Question 18

Intelligence is hard to define because______.

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the flynn effect

Question 19

22 yr old Bob takes a test that measures abilities as digit span, vocab, and object assembly.

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WAIS

Question 20

The characteristics of savant syndrome have been used to support

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Gardner's argument for multiple intelligences.

Question 21

What would be considered an environmental factor to a child's IQ?

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average household income

Question 22

Which of the following is not considered one of Howard Gardener's multiple intelligences?

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practical

Question 23

Racial differences in intelligence are the result of all of the following except______.

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unbiased tests

Question 24

The nineteenth-century English scientist Sir Francis Galton believed that

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superior intelligence is biologically inherited

Question 25

The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge in new situations is

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intelligence

Question 26

Which of the following best defines the Flynn Effect?

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the global improvement on intelligence tests in past years

Question 27

Which kind of test is best to show predictive validity?

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aptitude test

Question 28

Define: the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.

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validity

Question 29

A condition of intellectual disability due to an extra copy of chromosome 21 is _______.

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down syndrome

Question 30

Howard Gardner identified a total of ________ intelligences.

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8

Question 31

Girls are better at what than boys?

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detecting emotions

Question 32

Adopted children relate more to _______ on verbal ability tests.

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their birth parents

Question 33

Which of the following persons best illustrates Sternberg's concept of practical intelligence?

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Kim:a reporter who has established a network of info sources

Question 34

What kind of intelligence is tested by traditional intelligence tests?

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analytical

Question 35

At what year do IQ tests become able to predict future success and intelligence?

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7 years old

Question 36

What word describes a person with a mental disability who is good at a skill?

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savant syndrome

Question 37

Heritability relates to______.

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% of intelligence related to genetics

Question 38

Do males and females differ in average IQ scores?

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No

Question 39

The eugenics movement would have been most likely to encourage

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selective breeding of highly intelligent people

Question 40

Who disagreed with Spearman about intelligence, identifying 7 clusters of abilities?

Accepted Answer

L. L. Thurstone.

Question 41

Children are considered to have a disability if they have a IQ score less than______.

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70

Question 42

The speed with which people retrieve info from memory has been found to be a predictor of their

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verbal intelligence

Question 43

A professor at Stanford who changed Binet's test & added scoring method of using IQ.

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Louis Terman

Question 44

The lower region of the __ lobe is a center for processing mathematical and spatial information

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parietal

Question 45

Aptitude tests are designed to test _____?

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future

Question 46

Educational programs for gifted children are most likely to be criticized for

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encouraging segregation and tracking of gifted students.

Question 47

Experts would most likely agree that intelligence is

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a mental ability to learn from experience

Question 48

What is not a part of emotional intelligence?

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inventing emotions

Question 49

Males score higher than females on tests of ______.

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spatial ability

Question 50

Which of the below shows IQ?

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mental age/chronological age X100

Question 51

IQ scores of identical twins raised together are higher then fraternal meaning_____.

Accepted Answer

theres a genetic effect on intelligence

Question 52

What is stereotype threat?

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concern that one will be judged by a negative stereotype

Unit Eleven: Intelligence and Individual Differences

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Unit Eleven: Intelligence and Individual Differences

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