AP Psychology Intelligence and Testing

Who would have been most enthusiastic about the value of a single intelligence test score as an index of an individual's mental capacities?

• Erikson

• Spearman

• Gardner

• Sternberg

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:

• predictive validity

• factor analysis

• the g factor

• reliability

These tests attempt to predict the test takers future performance.  

• Aptitude
• Acheivement
• Assessment
• Standardized

What percent of the population has an IQ score between 70 and 130?

• 25

• 55

• 68

• 96

A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of test items that seem to tap a common ability is called

• correlational measurement
• standardization
• factor analysis
• reliability assessment

Although Nicole scored well above average on the SAT, she frequently loses her temper and needlessly antagonizes even her best friends. Her behavior best illustrates a low level of:

• convergent thinking
• validity
• mental age
• emotional intelligence

Binet and Terman would have been most likely to disagree about the: 

• possibility of predicting people's academic success from intelligence scores
• need to standardize intelligence tests
• extent to which intelligence is determined by heredity
• definition of mental age

A 6-year-old who responded to the Stanford-Binet with the proficiency typical of an average 8-year-old was said to have an IQ of:

• 75

• 85

• 100

• 133

When a person's test performance can be compared with that of a representative and pretested sample of people, the test is said to be

• reliable
• standardized
• valid
• normally distributed

When researchers have subjects take two halves of a single test (split-half) or have them take the same test twice (test-retest), they are assessing the test's ____ .

• validity

• reliability

• standardization

• factor analysis