AP Psychology - Testing & Individual Differences

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Paul takes a test in the army to see if he would make a good pilot. Such a test is

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an aptitude test.

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If a test is reliable, it means that

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it yields consistent results.

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The standardization sample is

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the people used to represent the population for whom the test was intended.

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Which of the following is not one of Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences? practical, musical, interpersonal, spatial

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practical

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Mrs. Cho is careful to make sure that she fairly represents the whole year's work on the final exam for her American literature class. If Mrs. Cho achieves this goal, her test will have

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content validity.

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Spearman argued that intelligence could be boiled down to one ability known as

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General Intelligence

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Which of the following would provide the strongest evidence for the idea that intelligence is highly heritable? Options: The IQ scores of parents are positively correlated with the scores of their children, Monozygotic twins separated at birth have extremely similar IQ scores, Dizgotic twins score more similarly on IQ tests than do other siblings, Different ethnic groups have different average IQ scores

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Monozygotic twins separated at birth have extremely similar IQ scores

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All of the following people are known for their theories of intelligence except for: Thurstone, Gardner, Sternberg, Flynn.

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Flynn.

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People with high EQs would be likely to 

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find jobs well suited to their individual strengths.

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This personality test lacks

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validity.