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WorksheetsAP Psych Unit 11 Assessment - Spring 2021
Total questions: 66
Worksheet time: 36mins
Which of Sternberg’s areas of intelligence focuses on everyday task success?
Analytical
Academic
Creative
Practical
Which of the following is NOT one of Gardner’s multiple intelligences?
Naturalist
Spatial
General
Musical
Which is designed to predict a person’s future performance?
Mental age
Intelligence test
Achievement test
Aptitude test
The extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest is called __________________________.
standardization.
reliability.
content validity.
predictive validity.
Which of the following is likely NOT an indication of intellectual disability?
An IQ score of 70
An IQ score of 135
Down syndrome
Savant syndrome
A self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype is called (an) ___________.
crystallized intelligence.
intellectual disability.
stereotype threat.
heritability.
Jacob is 9 years old and academically performs at a 12 year-old level. What’s his average IQ?
75
133
13
100
Peter is doing a research paper on intelligence and notices that IQ scores have significantly increased over the years. This is called (the)__________________.
Flynn effect.
reliability.
content validity.
normal curve.
Fred and Eric are identical twins. Which is likely true about their intelligence?
Their intelligence test scores are closely matched.
Their brain matter volume and activation are different.
Their environment has no influence on their intelligence.
They have the same intelligence correlations as adopted siblings would.
Nadine believes that girls can’t run as fast as boys. This seems to slow her down during her co-ed race. What might she be influenced by?
Heritability
Stereotype threat
Fluid intelligence
The Flynn effect
According to Howard Gardner, how many different intelligence's are there?
6
7
9
8
Because of his accumulated years of knowledge about psychology, Dr. Hernandez has decided that his fiftieth birthday would be the perfect time to begin writing an introductory psychology textbook. It would demonstrate his
factor analysis
fluid intelligence
predictive validity
crystallized intelligence
A person's ability to reason speedily and abstractly (for example, in solving novel logic problems) decreases slowly up to about age 75, then more rapidly, especially after age 85. This type of ability is also known as
factor analysis
factor analysis
crystallized intelligence
fluid intelligence
David Sternberg says there are three types of intelligence. Creative, Practical and ________________.
Analytical
General
Advanced
Basic
A person with lower than average intelligence who has an amazing, unusual mental skill is known as a
genius.
savant.
prodigy.
freak.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
A 9 year old has the mental age of a 6 year old. What's her IQ?
67
100
133
50
Aptitude tests are to ________ as achievement tests are to ________.
future performance; current competence
current competence; future performance
past competence; current interests
current interests; past competence
Which provided the strongest evidence of environment's role in intelligence?
Adopted children's intelligence scores are more like their adoptive parents' scores than their biological parents'
Children's intelligence scores are more strongly related to their mothers' score than to their fathers'
Children moved from a deprived environment into an intellectually enriched one show gains in intellectual environment
funny Psych cartoons raise IQ scores
HAVING 47 CHROMOSOMES IN EACH CELL INSTEAD OF 46 IS A CHARACTERISTIC OF
down syndrome
cretinism
hydrocephaly
microcephaly
if someone with down syndrome has children could they inherit the disease
they could but not always
all the time
never
they can't
The Head Start program was created to help underserved children.
True
False
Average IQ range is
90-110
120-130
56-75
0-100
Don's intelligence scores were average, but he has been successful as a corporate manager. Sternberg would suggest that
his verbal intelligence exceeds his performace intelligence
his performance intelligence exceeds his verbal intelligence
his academic intelligence exceeds practical intelligence
his practical intelligence exceeds his academic intelligence
What is an achievement test?
an objective and standardized measure of a sample of behavior
is designed to measure a person's level of skill, accomplishment, or knowledge in a specific area
a series of studies on delayed gratification in the late 1960s and early 1970s led by psychologist Walter Mischel, then a professor at Stanford University
another name for an IQ test
What is an aptitude test?
a test that can predict your future IQ
a test designed to calculate the IQ of children under the age of 4
a test designed to predict learning capacity for a particular area or particular skills
a test that can predict your future athletic capability
Who believed that we have one general intelligence?
Charles Spearman
L.L. Thurstone
Howard Gardner
Robert Sternberg
Who coined the phrase "nature vs. nurture" and wrote Hereditary Genius?
Francis Galton
Alfred Binet
Lewis Terman
David Wechsler
Which type of test is designed to predict a person's future performance?
achievement test
aptitude test
Which type of test is designed to assess what a person has learned?
achievement tests
aptitude tests
Research shows that generally, the higher an incoming college student's high school GPA, the higher the college student's college GPA. Which of the following describes this relationship?
a normal distribution
a positive correlation
a negative correlation
a skewed distribution
A thermometer that consistently reads 4 degrees higher than the actual temperature would be
valid but not reliable
reliable but not valid
It is both reliable and valid
It is neither reliable or valid
If the scores on an IQ test form a normal curve with a standard deviation of 15
the mean, median and mode are 100
68% of the scores will be between 85 and 115
60% of the test takers will have scored at least a 100
Katherine is a gifted psychotherapist who connects well with her patients. Which type of intelligence would she likely use most in her work?
intrapersonal
interpersonal
spatial
emotional
Stephanie knows that many people believe that women are not as skilled at math as men. When she takes a math test, this awareness causes her to perform below her actual abilities due to
stereotype threat
researcher bias
construct validity
reliability
Mrs. Smith gives a psychology test and finds that the scores form a normal distribution where the mean is 80 and the standard deviation is 12. About what percentage of Mrs. Smith's students scored at or above a 92%?
5%
12%
16%
20%
