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Exam 2 Review

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is intelligence

a)

being smart

b)

the mental ability to learn from experience

c)

using your brain

d)

the ability to know things

2.

What abilities does intelligence give us

a)

learn from experiences

b)

problem solving

c)

do well on tests

d)

adapt to new situations

3.

What is the g factor (g)

a)

general intelligence that underlies successful performance on a wide variety of tasks

b)

multiple intelligences

c)

savant syndrome

d)

goop

4.

Which of the following is not one of Gardener's intelligences?

a)

Existential

b)

Bodily Kinesthetic

c)

Analytical

d)

Intrapersonal

5.

What are Sternberg's multiple intelligences

a)

Analytical, Intrapersonal, Interpersonal

b)

Creative, linguistic, logical-mathematical

c)

Emotional, practical, existential

d)

Analytical, Creative, Practical

6.

Morgan has an IQ of 100, with a mental age of 6, how old is Morgan?

a)

9

b)

7

c)

6

d)

5

7.

Tiffany is a company manager who dictates workplace rules and task assignments without giving employees much opportunity to voice their task preferences or workplace concerns. She best illustrates:

a)

Strengths-based leadership

b)

transformational leadership

c)

360-degree feedback

d)

a directive leadership style

8.

Experts would most likely agree that intelligence is a(n):

a)

general trait that underlies success on nearly any track

b)

inborn ability to perform well on standard intelligence tests

c)

mental ability to learn from experience

d)

multiple array of completely independent adaptive traits

9.

    Sweden and Iceland exhibit little of the gender gap in mathematical abilities found in Turkey and Korea. This best illustrates that mental abilities are:

a)

polygenic

b)

socially influenced

c)

genetic

d)

stable

10.

Dr. Smith is a neurologist who finds significant meaning in their work. They are likely to view being a neurologist as:

a)

a job

b)

a career

c)

a calling

d)

destiny

11.

Zola disagrees with her classmates on an issue. During a class discussion, she is most likely to conform to her classmates’ opinion on the issue if she:

a)

believes that the rest of the class is unanimous in their position

b)

has a high level of self esteem

c)

Doesn’t have to reveal her personal opinion at the close of the class discussion

d)

Verbally expresses her own unique opinion early in the class discussion

12.

A dispositional attribution is to _____ as a situational attribution is to _____.

a)

     Central route persuasion; peripheral route persuasion

b)

       High ability; low motivation

c)

   Personality traits; assigned roles

d)

Politically liberal; politically conservative

13.

Jimmy is not upset that his girlfriend forgot his birthday because he believes that she forgot because she was worried about her upcoming finals and her father’s health. His explanation for his girlfriend’s forgetfulness is an example of:

a)

an attribution

b)

an attitude

c)

cognitive dissonance

d)

the fundamental attribution error

14.

Zoey took an intelligence test and was given one score to represent her intelligence, According to Spearman, this would represent her

a)

analytical intelligence

b)

g factor

c)

practical intelligence

d)

creative intelligence

15.

Kwame is a student who becomes so absorbed in his class studies that he completely loses awareness of how long he has been working. His experience best illustrates ____.

a)

flow

b)

human factors psychology

c)

task leadership

d)

360 degree feedback

16.

The characteristics of savant syndrome have been used to support:

a)

Stern's formula for calculating IQ scored

b)

Spearman's belief in general intelligence

c)

Thorndike's concept of social intelligence

d)

Gardner's argument for multiple intelligences

17.

Designing refrigerators in ways that maximize efficiency would be of most direct interest to:

a)

personnel psychologists

b)

organizational psychologists

c)

clinical psychologists

d)

human factors psychologists

18.

Of the following, who best illustrated sternberg's concept of analytical intelligence

a)

Mia, a 9 year old who solves complicated mathematical problems in record time

b)

Bobby, a student who receives lower grades in physical education than in any other course

c)

Lauren, a business executive who effectively motivates her sales staff

d)

Zach, a teenager who completes the road test for for their driver's license without a single error

19.

The value of social conformity is most likely to be emphasized in

a)

England

b)

France

c)

Japan

d)

North America

20.

In very stressful or embarrassing situations, Nandi is able to maintain her poise and help others to feel comfortable. Nandi’s ability best illustrates the value of

a)

linguistic intelligence

b)

spatial intelligence

c)

practical intelligence

d)

emotional intelligence

21.

Violet views her work as primarily an opportunity to climb the corporate ladder in pursuit of increasingly better positions. She views her work as a:

a)

career

b)

job

c)

calling

d)

fun

22.

factor analysis is a statistical procedure that can be used to :

a)

derive IQ scores by comparing mental and chronological age

b)

develop test norms from a standardized sample

c)

identify clusters of closely related test items

d)

provide numerical estimates of a test's reliability

23.

Danny wrecked his parent’s car on a rainy day. His parents assumed that the accident was caused by his carelessness and lack of concern for their car. Danny’s parents’ assumption illustrates:

a)

a dispositional attribution

b)

an attitude

c)

a situational attribution

d)

the foot-in the door phenomenon

24.

Binet and Simon assessed children’s _______ to determine whether children’s intellectual development was fast or slow.

a)

emotional intelligence

b)

mental age

c)

natural ability

d)

cultural background

25.

Which of the following individuals is most likely to experience stereotype threat

a)

Brandon who is the only African American taking the SAT with Caucasian students

b)

Sam who is taking the SAT with his fellow classmates

c)

Stella who attends an all girls prep school and is taking the SAT with her classmates

d)

Kayla who is taking the SAT with a proctor who is the same race and gender as her

26.

Self fulfilling expectations are most likely to be triggered by

a)

heritability

b)

Epigenetics

c)

Polygenetics

d)

Stereotype threat

27.

An increase in average intelligence test performance during the past decade would best illustrate why intelligence testing requires up-to-date:

a)

validity tests

b)

standardization

c)

reliability tests

d)

processing speed estimates

28.

Shannon believes intelligence is a product of an interaction between genes and environmental influences. Her position is consistent with:

a)

Epigenetics

b)

Polygenetics

c)

the family-environment effect

d)

growth mindset

29.

Danielle is enthusiastically committed to his work within a company whose customer service goals are aligned with his own personal sense of occupational calling. She best illustrates:

a)

Strengths-based leadership

b)

transformational leadership

c)

360-degree feedback

d)

employee engagement

30.

A speaker on campus states that “the government should use intelligence scores to identify those who should and shouldn’t reproduce to benefit humankind.” They are advocating:

a)

eugenics

b)

factor analysis

c)

test standardization

d)

crystalized intelligence

31.

Natasha, an applicant for a consulting position, was so excited in her conversations with company officials that they decided to hire without reviewing her resume. The officials should most clearly be informed about:

a)

the interviewer illusion

b)

the experience of flow

c)

social leadership

d)

human factors psychology

32.

Work activities that are specifically suited to your strengths are most likely to be those associated with the experience of

a)

360-degree feedback

b)

flow

c)

external rewards

d)

getting a gold star sticker

33.

Accepting others’ opinions about reality is to _____ as the desire to gain approval is to _____.

a)

deindividualization; social facilitation

b)

social facilitation; deindividualization

c)

informational social influence; normative social influence

d)

normative social influence; informational social influence

34.

Which of the following observations provides the BEST evidence that intelligence test scores are influenced by heredity?

a)

Japanese children have higher average intelligence than american children do

b)

  Identical twins raised together are more similar in their intelligence scores than identical twins raised separately

c)

The intelligence scores of children are positively correlated with the intelligence scores of their parents

d)

Identical twins reared separately are more similar in their intelligence scores than fraternal twins raised together

35.

Individuals are likely to conform to the responses of other group members if they ________ already publicly committed themselves to their own personal response and if they know that others in the group ________ observe their response.

a)

Have; will

b)

Have; will not

c)

Have not; will

d)

have not; will not