Intelligence Practice Q's

A good test should be constructed with all of the following EXCEPT

• validity

• reliability

• standardization

• cultural bias

Crystallized intelligence refers to

• accumulated knowledge throughout the lifetime

• ability to reason quickly

• ability to mentally assemble pictures in your mind

• the quickness information can be pulled from long-term memory

Gil has a mental age of 12 at the age of 14. Gil's IQ according to Terman would be

• 70

• 85

• 100

• 115

Ms. Reagan, who is a teacher, agrees more with Howard Gardner’s theory of intelligence than Charles Spearman’s theory of intelligence. Which of the following scenarios would she most agree with?

• Ms. Reagan thinks that her students exhibit more than one type of intelligence. For example, she notices her student Noel plays well with others as well as alone.

• Ms. Reagan's student Shuri is excellent at math, so she concludes that Shuri must also have high verbal ability.

• Ms. Reagan observes that her student Lenny is practical, creative, and analytical, so she concludes that Lenny must be the most intelligent person in her class.

• Because Jenny can memorize every book she reads, Ms. Reagan concludes that she must have a high IQ.

Arthur is helping his friend set up her new phone. Arthur has never used this type of phone, but he uses his knowledge of setting up his own phone to help figure out how to use the new phone. According to Robert Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence, Arthur is using which type of intelligence?

• General intelligence

• Creative intelligence

• Visual-spatial intelligence

• Practical intelligence

Mary has an IQ score within one standard deviation above the mean score. This indicates her score was

• high enough for Mary to be considered a genius

• higher than at least 75% of people who took the test

• within the middle 68% of people who took the test

• higher than exactly 93% of people who took the test

A researcher wanted to test the psychometric properties of a new intelligence test for children. She administered the test twice, two months apart, to children in a fourth-grade classroom. On the second administration, she noticed that the children who performed well were not the same children who performed well on the first administration and that there appeared to be no relationship between student performance on the first and second administration of the test. Based on this scenario, the psychological construct missing from this intelligence test is

• test-retest reliability, because the researcher is administering the same test twice

• split-half reliability, because the researcher is administering the same test twice

• split-half reliability, because the researcher is administering equivalent forms of the same test twice

• internal-consistency reliability, because the researcher is administering a different test twice

Standardization refers to the process of

• determining the accuracy with which a test measures what it's supposed to

• defining meaningful scores relative to a representative pretested group

• determining the consistency of test scores obtained by retesting people

• measuring the success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict

The test created by Alfred Binet was designed to

• measure inborn intelligence in adults

• measure inborn intelligence in children

• predict school performance in children

• identify intellectually disabled children so they could be institutionalized

If a test designed to indicate which applicants are likely to perform the best on the job fails to do so, the test has

• low reliability

• low content validity

• low predictive validity

• not been standardized