Cognition I

Intelligence tests were initially designed by Binet and Simon to assess:

• Academic aptitude

• Intellectual creativity

• Academic achievement

• Heritability

• Savant syndrome

Lewis Terman’s widely used American revision of Binet’s original intelligence test was the:

• WISC

• WAIS

• Stanford-Binet

• SAT

• ACT

Language acquisition cannot be fully accounted for by associative learning processes for which of the following reasons?

• language use is creative

• speakers construct rules for utterances by imitating the models they hear

• effective communication depends on one’s level of emotional experience

• language production is reinforced by the listener

• infants are too young to learn associatively

A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of test items that seem to tap a common ability is called:

• Correlational measurement

• standardization

• reliability assessment

• factor analysis

• criterion-based validation

Miss Toleman has encouraged the school psychologist to test one of her 3^rd grade students, Claire, who she thinks belongs in the gifted school with Avery. Which of the following psychological assessments would the psychologist most likely use to assess Claire's intelligence?

• Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)

• Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

• Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI)

• Stanford-Binet

• 16pf

Those who emphasize the importance of the g factor are most likely to be enthusiastic about:

• The use of factor analysis as a tool to determine supporting evidence for their views

• The discontinuation of “gifted child” programs for intellectually advantaged children

• The derivation of adult intelligence test scores from the ratio of mental age to chronological age

• The utilization of a small standardization sample in the process of intelligence-test construction

• The quantification of intelligence with a single numerical score

Of the following, who best illustrates Sternberg and Wagner’s concept of analytical intelligence?

• Carter, a high school student who receives lower grades in physical education than in any other course

• Lauren, an art teacher who effectively motivates her students

• Campbell, a linguistics professor who refuses to pay taxes because they are used to develop nuclear weapons

• Alex, a fifth-grader who solves complicated mathematical problems in record time

• Kiarra, a teenager who completes the road test for her driver’s license without a single error

In one experiment, Mr. Cosey’s students were told that females were inferior to males in performance of the required task. Consequently, females in the class experienced a subtle degree of anxiety that worsened their performance. (Had the female students not been aware of this information their performance would have been noticeably better.) The effect described in this scenario is referred to as:

• stereotype threat

• convergent thinking

• the Flynn Effect

• semantic slanting

• crystallized intelligence

The practice of solving problems by using a mental shortcut is an example of:

• insightful operation

• confirmation bias

• hypothesis test

• use of a heuristic

• use of an algorithm

Assessing current competence is to _____ tests as predicting future performance is to _____ tests.

• Intelligence; standardized

• Aptitude; achievement

• Standardized; intelligence

• Achievement; aptitude