Intelligence Testing

Experts would most likely agree that intelligence is

• an inborn ability to perform well on standard intelligence tests.

• a mental ability to learn from experience.

• a general trait that underlies success on nearly any task.

• a multiple array of completely independent adaptive traits.

• the unconscious processing that occurs as the first step in problem solving

To regard an abstract concept as if it were a real, concrete thing is called

• inductive reasoning.

• heritability.

• factor analysis.

• reification.

• standardization.

The Stanford-Binet, WAIS, and WISC tests are all types of

• personality tests.

• factor analysis tests.

• achievement tests.

• multiple intelligence tests.

• general intelligence tests.

To assess whether intelligence is a single trait or a collection of several distinct abilities, psychologists have made extensive use of

• the normal curve.

• criterion-based validation.

• standardization.

• reliability assessment.

• factor analysis.

Emotional intelligence is a critical component of

• creativity.

• social intelligence.

• analytical intelligence.

• convergent thinking

• factor analysis.

High intelligence scores have been linked with high concentrations of gray matter in certain regions of the frontal lobe. The gray matter refers to the ________ of neurons.

• cell bodies

• axons

• dendrites

• synaptic junctions

• receptor sites

The speed with which people retrieve information from memory has been found to be a predictor of their ________ intelligence.

• verbal

• practical

• emotional

• spatial

• creative

Binet and Simon designed a test of intellectual abilities in order to

• provide a quantitative estimate of inherited intellectual potential.

• distinguish between academic and practical intelligence.

• identify children likely to have difficulty learning in regular school classes.

• assess general capacity for goal-directed adaptive behavior.

• distinguish between people with high general intelligence factor (g) and savant syndrome.

The eugenics movement would have been most likely to encourage

• selective breeding of highly intelligent people.

• creation of special education programs for intellectually inferior children.

• construction of culturally and racially unbiased tests of intelligence.

• use of factor analysis for identification of various types of intelligence.

• identification of lower IQ students in order to target more specific tutoring hel

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

• the normal curve.

• stereotype threat.

• the g factor.

• standardization.

• the Flynn effect.