Test 2 2024

Those who score above average on tests of mathematical aptitude are also likely to score above average on tests of verbal aptitude. According to Spearman, this best illustrates the importance of ________.

• existential intelligence.

• multiple intelligence.

• g factor.

• test reliability.

________ helps psychologists to assess whether intelligence is a single trait or a collection of several distinct abilities.

• the normal curve.

• standardization.

• Down syndrome.

• factor analysis.

Of the following, who best illustrates Sternberg's concept of analytical intelligence?

• a student who receives lower grades in physical education than in any other course.

• a 9-year-old who solves complicated mathematical problems in record time.

• a business executive who effectively motivates her sales staff.

• a teenager who completes the road test for her driver's license without a single error.

Six-year-old Julie performs on an intelligence test at the same level as an average 8-year-old. Julie's mental age is ________.

• 6

• 7

• 8

• 9

Carlisle's doctor suspects that she may have had a stroke in the past couple days since her fiftieth birthday. So, he has arranged for her to take a test that assesses her verbal comprehension, perceptual organization, and working memory. The test she is taking is ________.

• WAIS.

• Stanford-Binet.

• SAT.

• WISC.

Dr. Smith has designed a test to measure eleventh-graders' knowledge of American history. To ensure that the test represents American eleventh-graders, he is standardizing the test by ________.

• correlating test-takers' scores on two halves of the test.

• correlating test-takers scores with their current high school GPA.

• assessing whether test-takers' scores are distributed in a normal curve.

• administering it to a representative sample of American eleventh-graders.

If both anxious and nonanxious individuals receive similar scores on a diagnostic test for anxiety, it suggests that the test ________.

• has not been standardized.

• is unreliable.

• is biased.

• has a high ceiling effect.

Different age groups are tested at the same time in a ________.

• longitudinal study.

• cross-sectional study.

• standardized test.

• Factor analysis

Aptitude tests are to ________ as achievement tests are to ________.

• current interests; past competence

• past competence; current interests

• current competence; future performance

• future performance; current competence

The proportion of variation in intelligence among individuals that is attributable to genetic variation is known as the ________ of intelligence.

• Polygenetics

• Heritability

• Predictive validity

• Behavior genetics