Crash Course Psych #23

Who suggested the concept of the G-Factor, a comprehensive general intelligence that underlies all specific mental abilities?

• L.L. Thurstone

• Howard Gardner

• Charles Spearman

• Robert Sternberg

Which psychologist views intelligence as multiple abilities that come in different forms, and believes that we have eight intelligences?

• Robert Sternberg

• Howard Gardner

• Charles Spearman

• L.L. Thurstone

What is the term used to describe the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions?

• Emotional Intelligence

• Creative Intelligence

• Practical Intelligence

• Analytical Intelligence

Who developed the famous intelligence quotient (IQ) measurement formula?

• Lewis Terman

• Theodore Simon

• Alfred Binet

• William Stern

What was the concept of a child's mental age used to measure?

• The ability to produce ideas that are both novel and valuable

• The ability to adapt to new situations

• The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions

• The level of performance associated with a certain chronological age

Who was the English scientist who suggested that intelligence has a lot to do with heredity, and promoted the idea of eugenics?

• Francis Galton

• Charles Darwin

• Theodore Simon

• Alfred Binet

Which country mandated that all children must attend school, leading to the development of a test to measure a child's mental age?

• United States

• France

• Germany

• United Kingdom

Who used revisions of Binet and Simon's work to create the famous intelligence quotient (IQ) measurement?

• William Stern

• Theodore Simon

• Alfred Binet

• Lewis Terman

What is the term used to describe the study of how to selectively and supposedly improve the human population, especially by encouraging breeding in some people and discouraging it in others?

• Natural Selection

• Factor Analysis

• Psychometrics

• Eugenics

Who was the French psychologist who was commissioned to develop a test to measure a child's mental age?

• Lewis Terman

• Theodore Simon

• William Stern

• Alfred Binet