Unit 2.8: Intelligence Post-Test

Sir Francis Galton believed that intelligence was:

• heritable

• determined by family dynamics

• determined by education

• multi-faceted

Psychologists today have established a single, widely accepted operational definition of "intelligence".

• True

• False

Known by the concept ___________________, Charles Spearman's theory was that a variety of specific skills come together to comprise one's overall intelligence.

• general intelligence

• multiple intelligences

• specific intelligence

• multifaceted intelligence

Francis Galton's intelligence tests have been criticized for:

• confirmation bias

• unwittingly favoring white males

• promoting ideas that would lead to eugenics

• all of the above

Howard Gardner of Harvard identified eight relatively independent types of intelligence. Among these are:

• logic smart, word smart

• picture smart, self smart, nature smart

• music smart, body smart, people smart (interpersonal)

• all of the above

Howard Gardner argued that traditional intelligence tests placed too much emphasis on:

• race and gender

• artistic or creative aptitudes

• multiple choice formats

• "school success" skills like math and verbal abilities

Factor analysis refers to a psychological approach to intelligence wherein:

• socioeconomic factors can be used to infer a person's "general intelligence"

• genetic factors can be analyzed to predict an individual's "general intelligence"

• measures of specific subtypes of intelligence can be correlated to infer an individual's "general intelligence"

The triarchic theory of intelligence proposes that there are three broad types of intelligence:

• musical, body-kinesthetic, logical

• practical, analytical, creative

• mathematical (logical), interpersonal, visual-spatial

In order to be valid, intelligence tests ought to conform to certain __________________ principles.

• logical

• sociological

• psychometric

• symbolic

The Flynn Effect refers to:

• an apparent increase in average IQ scores over time

• an apparent decrease in average IQ scores over time

• a downstream consequence of stereotype threat

• an effect of personal bias