AP Psych Intelligence

Crystallized intelligence refers most directly to a person's

• accumulated knowledge and verbal skills.

• willingness to revise beliefs in light of new information.

• ability to master new information and to learn new skills.

• ability to assume the perspective of others.

• ability to reason speedily and abstractly.

Molly has just taken a test of her capacity to learn to be a computer programmer. This is an example of a(n) ________ test.

• interest

• validity

• achievement

• factor analysis

• aptitude

For the original version of the Stanford-Binet, IQ was defined as

• chronological age divided by mental age and multiplied by 100.

• mental age multiplied by chronological age divided by 100.

• mental age multiplied by 100.

• chronological age subtracted from mental age and multiplied by 100.

• mental age divided by chronological age and multiplied by 100.

Factor analysis is a statistical procedure that can be used to

• identify clusters of closely related test items.

• evaluate how accurately test items predict a criterion behavior.

• provide a quantitative estimate of heritability.

• extract test norms from a standardization sample.

• derive IQ scores by comparing mental age with chronological age.

The psychologist who disagreed with Spearman about the nature of intelligence, identifying seven clusters of primary mental abilities rather than one general intelligence factor, was

• Peek

• Sternberg

• Gardner

• Thurstone

• Wagner

The widespread improvement in intelligence test performance during the past century is called

• stereotype threat

• Flynn effect

• normal curve

• standardization

• g factor

Twin and adoption studies are helpful for assessing the ________ of intelligence.

• content validity

• predictive validity

• standardization

• reliability

• heritablity

Mental age is best defined as:

• method of estimating a child's intellectual ability by comparing the child's score on intelligence tests and his/her age

• method of estimating a child's intellectual ability based on raw scores on an intelligence test

• comparing a child's actual age with his or her computed age

• basing a child's age level on his or her scores on a standardized test

When an intelligence test measures what it is supposed to, the test is considered to be:

• Reliable

• Valid

• Accurate

• Standardized

If a 4 year old has a mental age of 5, what would be the child's ratio IQ?

• 100

• 95

• 150

• 125

• 110