Intelligence

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

• Jackie, a high school student who receives lower grades in physical education than in any other course

• Frida, a business executive who effectively motivates her sales staff

• Betty, a schoolteacher who refuses to pay taxes because they are used to develop new weapons

• Salma, a fifth-grader who solves complicated mathematical problems in record time

J. McVicker Hunt began a program of tutored human enrichment in an Iranian orphanage. This program trained caregivers to

• ignore babies' crying.

• imitate babies' babbling.

• assess babies' emotional intelligence.

• calculate babies' intelligence quotients.

The characteristics of savant syndrome have been used to support

• Spearman's belief in intelligence as one general ability, or g factor.

• Thurstone's notion of social intelligence.

• Gardner's argument for multiple intelligences.

• Stern's original IQ formula.

Why does the predictive validity of general aptitude tests decrease as the educational experience of the students who take them increases?

• More educated students have taken aptitude tests so frequently that for them such tests are no longer pure measures of aptitude.

• Comparisons of mental age with chronological age are inadequate for assessing the aptitude of older and more educated students.

• There is a relatively restricted range of aptitude test scores among students at higher educational levels.

• Among more educated students, motivation has a much greater effect on academic success than does aptitude.

The intelligence test scores of adopted children are LEAST likely to be positively correlated with the scores of their adoptive siblings during a.

• early childhood

• middle childhood

• early adolescence

• early adulthood

On which of the following tasks are males most likely to outperform females?

• speed-reading

• interpreting literature

• learning a foreign language

• mentally rotating three-dimensional objects

The distribution of intelligence test scores in the general population forms a bell-shaped pattern. This pattern is called

• standardization sample

• reliability coefficient

• factor analysis

• normal curve

Older adults outperformed younger adults in their responses to New York Times crossword puzzles. The superior performance of these older adults best illustrates the value of

• habituation.

• fluid intelligence.

• concrete operational thought.

• crystallized intelligence.

Males are most likely to outnumber females in a class designed for high school students highly gifted in.

• reading

• speech

• math problem solving

• a foreign language

Howard Gardner identified a total of ____________ intelligences.

• three

• five

• eight

• twelve