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WorksheetsAP Unit 11 Testing and Individual Differences
Total questions: 53
Worksheet time: 28mins
What did Spearman mean by a "g" factor?
Intelligence is purely genetic.
"g" is a general intelligence that underlies many abilities.
"g" is the important speed factor in how long it takes to solve a problem.
Girls' intelligence is valued above boys' intelligence.
Validity means that
a test measures what it is supposed to measure.
a test has been tested on many subjects.
a test measures both aptitude and achievement.
scores are the same no matter who grades the test.
The most commonly used individual intelligence test is the
ASVAB.
Stanford-Binet.
Jensen Culture Free Assessment.
Wechsler Intelligence Scales.
A person with lower than average intelligence who has an amazing, unusual mental skill is known as a
genius.
savant.
prodigy.
freak.
An aptitude test attempts to measure
potential for future learning.
how much a person already knows.
a person's genetic makeup.
kinesthetic intelligence.
When intelligence scores are graphed, they should create
an increasing slope.
a normal bell curve.
an equilateral figure.
a negative correlation.
Psychological tests must have two characteristics and they are
validity and reliability.
correlation and validity.
reliability and foundation.
reliability and correlation.
A test is said to be reliable if it
measures what it is supposed to measure.
gives consistent results for any given person.
tests many different abilities.
does not show racial and ethnic differences in scores.
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.
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.
What is the ability to perceive, use, understand, and manage emotions called?
Two-Factor Theory
Emotional Intelligence
Multiple Intelligences
Wechsler Intelligence
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.
A test that is designed to show what you have already learned (Like the AP Psych Test, and most of your tests) is termed a(n)
self report.
aptitude test.
achievement test.
observation.
When seeing if a test is reliable, taking it more than once is called the
alternate form.
split half.
equivalent form.
Test-Retest.
The alternative uses test (Ex. How many uses for a sock can you think of?) is a measure of
analytical intelligence.
practical intelligence.
creative intelligence.
linguistic intelligence.
The fact that identical twins' IQ scores are so close together (highly correlated) even when they are raised apart suggests
intelligence is strongly genetic.
intelligence has a strong environmental component.
identical twins attend better schools than fraternal twins.
adoptive parents have a positive effect on intelligence.
Bethany has a mental age of 5. This means that she must
be 5 years old.
have answered test items that could be answered by an average 5-year-old.
have answered at least half of the items considered appropriate for the average 6-year-old.
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.
If a test is reliable, it means that
it is given in the same way every time.
it tests what it is supposed to test.
it is a fair assessment.
it yields consistent results.
Which of the following is not one of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences?
practical
musical/rhythmic
interpersonal
visual/spatial
Crystallized intelligence refers most directly to a person's
accumulated knowledge and verbal skills.
willingness to revise beliefs in light of new information.
ability to master new information and to learn new skills.
ability to assume the perspective of others.
ability to reason speedily and abstractly.
Factor analysis is a statistical procedure that can be used to
identify clusters of closely related test items.
evaluate how accurately test items predict a criterion behavior.
provide a quantitative estimate of heritability.
extract test norms from a standardization sample.
derive IQ scores by comparing mental age with chronological age.
The psychologist who disagreed with Spearman about the nature of intelligence, identifying seven clusters of primary mental abilities rather than one general intelligence factor, was
Peek.
Sternberg.
Gardner.
Thurstone.
Wagner.
Twin and adoption studies are helpful for assessing the ________ of intelligence.
content validity
predictive validity
standardization
reliability
heritablity
Mental age is best defined as
a method of estimating a child's intellectual ability by comparing the child's score on intelligence tests and his/her age.
a method of estimating a child's intellectual ability based on raw scores on an intelligence test.
comparing a child's actual age with his or her computed age.
basing a child's age level on his or her scores on a standardized test.
Which of the following psychologists added a performance scale in an attempt to measure nonverbal skills and rule out other cultural and education biases?
Wechsler
Binet
Gardner
Sternberg
Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence was divided into 3 categories. What are they?
practical, intrapersonal, and creative
experimental, analytical, and problem solving
analytical, practical, and creative
experimental, problem solving, and practical
According to Raymond Cattell, what is the major difference between crystallized intelligence and fluid intelligence?
Crystallized refers to problem-solving abilities, fluid is the ability to absorb and retain information.
Crystallized is the ability to absorb and retain information, fluid refers to problem-solving abilities.
Crystallized is the ability to be analytical, fluid is the ability to read and write.
Crystallized is the ability to absorb information, fluid is the ability to analyze information.
Which of the following psychologists did not suggest the existence of more than one kind of intelligence?
Gardner
Sternberg
Guilford
Spearman
The WAIS and WISC are credited for
creating early intervention programs for the mentally ill.
creating intelligence tests specific to different age groups.
creating one standardized test equal for all cultures and races.
creating a new understanding of the term mental age.
Alfred Binet is known as the father of intelligence mainly because of his work in
the assessment of one's ability to learn and the creation of mental age.
creation of the intelligence quotient (IQ).
creation of both mental age and the intelligence quotient.
understanding of the heritability factors in terms of intelligence.
A normal distribution is one in which
the majority of scores are high.
the majority of scores are low.
all scores fall in the middle range.
the majority of scores fall in the middle range.
all scores are above the mean.
Lewis Terman's widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test was the
American College Testing Exam.
Stanford-Binet.
WAIS.
WISC.
Scholastic Assessment Test.
Self-fulfilling expectations are most likely to be triggered by
factor analysis.
aptitude testing.
savant syndrome.
stereotype threat.
the Flynn effect.
Studies suggest that there is a positive correlation between intelligence and the
neural processing speed in the brain.
size of the brain's synaptic gaps.
brain's rate of glucose consumption.
brain's production of endorphins.
Fluid intelligence refers most directly to a person's
ability to assume the perspective of others.
ability to utilize diffuse brain regions for storing memories.
accumulated knowledge.
ability to reason speedily and abstractly.
If a road test for a driver's license adequately samples the tasks a driver routinely faces, the test is said to
have content validity.
be reliable.
have a normal distribution.
have predictive validity.
The WAIS was designed for testing ________ intelligence, whereas the WISC was designed for testing ________ intelligence.
interpersonal; intrapersonal
practical; creative
adults'; children's
analytical; emotional
The ability to control one's impulses and delay immediate pleasures in pursuit of long-term goals is most clearly a characteristic of
heritability.
mental age.
emotional intelligence.
divergent thinking.
The French government commissioned Binet to develop an intelligence test that would
reduce the need to rely on teachers' subjectively biased judgments of students' learning potential.
use achievement test scores to accurately predict aptitude.
effectively distinguish between practical and creative intelligence.
demonstrate the innate intellectual superiority of western European races.
The heritability of intelligence refers to
the percentage of variation in intelligence within a group that is attributable to genetic factors.
the extent to which a group's intelligence is attributable to genetic factors.
a general underlying intelligence factor that is measured by every task on an intelligence test.
The similarity between intelligence scores of fraternal twins reared together is
less than that between identical twins reared apart.
equal to that between identical twins reared apart.
less than that between children and their biological parents.
equal to that between ordinary siblings reared together.
Everyone would agree that intelligence tests are “biased” in the sense that
reliability may be low but the content validity of IQ tests is high.
the heritability of intelligence is very high.
the reliability of intelligence tests is close to zero.
test performance is influenced by cultural experiences.
