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Testing and Individual Differences
Created the idea of "g"
Our abilities to reason speedily and abstractly
Testing and Individual Differences
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Our abilities to reason speedily and abstractly
Increases throughout life
Peaks in a person's twenties
Decreases throughout life
Remains stable throughout life
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Created the idea of "g"
Alfred Binet
Charles Spearman
Robert Sternberg
Howard Gardner
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The Wechsler tests have replaced Stanford-Binet because
Wechsler provides more than a single intelligence score
Wechsler does not use puzzles, but does have drawing
Binet's family sued
Wechsler allows for bodily-kinesthetic testing
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Studies of environmental, race, and intelligence scores show that
Racial differences in scores remain the same
Racial differences in scores increase in college
Racial differences in scores decrease in college
Racial differences in scores decrease in high school
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A test is likely to have a high reliability when the test has a high correlation between
Curve fitting and technical specification scores
Curve fitting and test-retest scores
Test-retest and split-half scores
Split-half scores and curve fitting scores
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Created the Stanford-Binet test
Alfred Binet
Charles Darwin
Howard Gardner
Louis Terman
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Cross sectional intelligence studies suggest that
Intelligence increases with age
Intelligence remains stable through all cohorts
Intelligence is at its highest in the middle-aged cohort
Intelligence decreases with age
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Created the idea of mental age
G. Stanley Hall
Alfred Binet
Louis Terman
Robert Sternberg
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Self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on predisposed negative beliefs
Stereotype threat
Scientific methodology
Testing bias
Achievement bias
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On average, men score higher than women in
Spatial tests
Verbal skills
Emotional intelligence
Locating objects
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Intellectual disabilities do NOT include a limitation in which of the following
Practical skills
Analytical skills
Conceptual skills
Social skills
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The extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest
Predictive validity
Achievement validity
Content validity
Criterion-related validity
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A steady increase in intelligence scores since the 1930s is known as
Wechsler's Intelligence Curve
Death to Eugenics
Flynn Effect
Public Health Boost
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Which is not a theory as to why people with higher intelligence scores live longer?
Jobs in a manual labor field
Better education
Faster neural reaction
Less smoking
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The strongest correlation exists between
SAT and first year of college grades
GRE scores and graduate school grades
6-12 year olds' intelligence scores and school performance
Achievement tests scores of same kids at 11 and at 16
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Passion and perseverance in the pursuit of long-term goals
Achievement test
The Constitution
Factor analysis
Grit
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When a person with limited mental abilities has an exceptional specific skill
Criteron-related analysis
Triarchic theory
Savant syndrome
Factor analysis
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Cousin of Darwin, one of the first philosophers to discuss a numerical score for intelligence
Francis Galton
Alfred Binet
Louis Terman
Sigmund Freud
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Down Syndrome results from Trisomy
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Accumulated knowledge as reflected in vocabulary and analogies tests
Decreases with age
Increases with age
Remains stable throughout life
Peaks in a person's twenties
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According to the Myers book, the heritability of intelligence is
50 to 70 percent
60 to 80 percent
50 to 80 percent
40 to 60 percent
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Involving many genes
Variedgenetic
Multigenetic
Polygenetic
Uncountedgenetic
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Thurstone's seven mental factors, known as primary mental abilities, suggest
Abilities do tend to cluster, or an underlying g
There is no way to test intelligence
Street smarts are the only smarts
Intelligence is more than just math and verb skills
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Separated intelligence into practical, analytical, and creative
Robert Sternberg
James Flynn
Charles Spearman
David Wechsler
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Emotional intelligence does not include which of the following
Using emotions
Scorning emotions
Perceiving emotions
Understanding emotions
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Longitudinal intelligence studies indicate
Intelligence decreases throughout life
Intelligence remains stable
Intelligence increases throughout life
Intelligence is at its highest among a middle-aged cohort
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Which of the following is not a cultural concept that positively affects intelligence scores
Kindergarten attendance
School discipline
High socioeconomic inequality
Increase of instructional hours in school
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J. McVicker Hunt's study indicated which environment increases intelligence scores
Glum lumps
Low education of teachers
Tutored human enrichment
High social inequality
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Psychologist who created the idea of "growth mindset"
Howard Gardner
Carol Dweck
Edward Thorndike
J. McVicker Hunt
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Theorized that humans do not have one specific intelligence, but 8/9 intelligences
Ivan Pavlov
Howard Gardner
Charles Spearman
Louis Terman
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Equal spatial abilities were seen in girls and boys in which country?
South Korea
Sweden
The United States
Turkey
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Participation in Head Start programs typically cause intelligence scores to
Have no bearing on epigenetic studies
Increase initially and later have a weak correlation
Increase regardless of environment throughout life
Decrease initially and later increase
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Studies of biological and adoptive parents & adopted children's intelligence scores show
score correlations never exist
score correlations decrease with age
score correlations are stable
score correlations increase with age
