Intelligence - Standards 1 & 2 Progress Check

Sarah is 12; her mental age is 15. What is her IQ?

• 125

• 80

• 110

• 120

Creator of the Standford-Binet Intelligence Scale

• Albert Binet & Theodore Simone

• David Wechsler

• Lewis Terman

• William Stern

He conducted a longitudinal study of boys with high IQs and found that while they might make slightly more money, they weren't really happier or better off than boys with average IQs

• Albert Binet

• Lewis Terman

• Rene Stanford

• David Wechsler

This researcher put forth the theory of 7 or 8 different kinds of intelligence.

• Sternberg

• Galton

• Gardner

• Terman

On an IQ test, how many test takers will fall within one standard deviation of the mean?

• 68%

• 84.1%

• 95%

• 99.7%

On a normal distribution, if the mean is 80, and the standard deviation is 20, what is the range of scores that will fall within one standard deviation of the mean?

• 60 - 80

• 40 - 120

• 60 - 100

• 85 - 115

If a test taker scores a 115 on the WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale), what will his percentile rank be?

• 68th percentile

• 84th percentile

• 50th percentile

• 75th percentile

If a middle school student scores in the 84th percentile on the WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children), what is the z score for her results?

• z = 1

• z = -2

• z = -1

• z = 0

What is the most widely accepted theory of intelligence today?

• Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligence

• Galton's theory of nature v. nurture

• Spearman's theory of general intelligence

• Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence

If a test for extraversion is given on Monday and the same test is given to the same subjects one week later and the scores for each person do not change much what type of reliability is being demonstrated

• interrater reliability

• test-retest reliability

• split-half reliability

• face reliability