Unit 11

The characteristics of savant syndrome most directly suggest that intelligence is

• a diverse set of distinct abilities.
• largely unpredictable and un-measurable.
• a culturally constructed concept.
• dependent upon the speed of cognitive processing.

Psychological tests show that 18-year-old Isaiah has an intelligence score of 65. Nevertheless, Isaiah can, with a few seconds of mental calculation, accurately tell the day of the week on which Christmas falls for any year in this century. It would be fair to conclude that

• the intelligence test Isaiah was given has no validity.
• intelligence tests are generally good measures of verbal but not of mathematical intelligence
• Isaiah is a person with savant syndrome.
• Isaiah excels in inductive reasoning.

Who is most likely to be criticized for extending the definition of intelligence to an overly broad range of talents?

• Howard Gardner
• Lewis Terman
• Charles Spearman
• Alfred Binet

Robert Sternberg distinguished among analytical, practical, and ________ intelligence.

• intrapersonal
• creative
• spatial
• musical

Of the following, who best illustrates Sternberg's concept of analytical intelligence?

• Trudy, a high school student who receives lower grades in physical education than in any other course
• Freda, a business executive who effectively motivates her sales staff
• Wilma, a schoolteacher who refuses to pay taxes because they are used to develop new weapons
• Selma, a fifth-grader who solves complicated mathematical problems in record time

When Mrs. McGuire asks her students to answer questions in class, she can quickly tell from their facial expressions whether they are happy to participate.  Mrs. McGuire's perceptual skill best illustrates

• analytical intelligence.
• reliability
• emotional intelligence
• factor analysis

One component of emotional intelligence involves

• The ability to completely forget about emotionally traumatic experiences  
• a lack of concern about receiving social approval.
• predicting accurately when feelings are about to change
• selectively focusing attention on positive thoughts and feelings.

MRI scans reveal correlations of about ________ between people's brain size (adjusted for body size) and their intelligence scores.

• –.05
• +.15
• +.33
• +.67

The French government commissioned Binet to develop an intelligence test that would

• demonstrate the innate intellectual superiority of western European races.
• effectively distinguish between practical and creative intelligence
• provide an objective measure of teaching effectiveness in the public school system.
• reduce the need to rely on teachers' subjectively biased judgments of students' learning potential.

Binet used the term mental age to refer to

• the average chronological age of children who completed a particular grade in school.
• the years of formal education successfully completed by a child.
• provide an objective measure of teaching effectiveness in the public school system.
• reduce the need to rely on teachers' subjectively biased judgments of students' learning potential