Psyc-1100 - Chapter 9

What are the two primary categories of psychological tests?

• mental ability & personality

• intelligence & personality

• interest & aptitude

• aptitude & attitude

Professor Meany's exams include questions on topics not covered in the course. What are Prof Meany's exams low in?

• reliability

• predictive validity

• content validity

• concept validity

You are listening to a televised debate about cloning. One of the scientists says that cloning would allow use to improve the quality of the human race by creating duplicates of highly intelligent people. People who were not considered suitable candidates for cloning would be able to adopt these "high quality" children, rather than have their own. Which of the following theorists would have been most likely to support this program?

• Francis Galton

• Lewis Terman

• Robert Sternberg

• Albert Binet

How does the Binet-Simon scale of intelligence express a child's score?

• percentile score

• mental age

• intelligence quotient

• potential score

Wechsler developed the deviation IQ based on the normal distribution. What would an overall IQ of 130 mean on his test?

• The person's mental age is 13 and chronological age is 10

• The person has 130 units of intelligence

• The test score was calculated incorrectly as 100 is the highest

• The person scored 2 standard deviations above the mean

What is a 10-year-old child's IQ if he has a mental age score of 8 on the Binet test?

• 75

• 80

• 100

• 125

How did Charles Spearman conceptualize intelligence?

• It is made up of a "core factor" common to all intellectual abilities

• It is seen only in certain "school-type" problems

• It can change from time to time

• It is a series of unrelated factors

Alister thinks very quickly, remembers things easily, and displays very fast reaction times to changing stimuli. What type of intelligence does this example illustrate?

• verbal intelligence

• crystallized intelligence

• fluid intelligence

• divergent intelligence

Which Sternberg type of intelligence is most similar to Gardner's description of logical and linguistic intelligences?

• analytical intelligence

• practical intelligence

• procedural intelligence

• creative intelligence

Which is NOT used to support the role of environment in explaining intelligence and observed differences in IQ scores?

• the corn field analogy

• adoption studies

• the cumulative deprivation hypothesis

• heritability estimates