Deck 17: Intelligence

Question 1

It is crucial that standardised tests are administered according to a manual and given which type of sample in order to facilitate the comparisons of an individual's ability?

A) Representative
B) Biased
C) Skewed
D) Convenience
E) Voluntary response

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Fill in the blank: IQ stands for Intelligence _________:

A) Quota
B) Qualification
C) Quantification
D) Quantum
E) Quotient

Answer 2

E

Question 3

Most intelligence tests are devised so IQs from the general population form what type of distribution?

A) Exponential
B) Normal
C) Poisson
D) Binomial
E) Uniform

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The test-retest method is commonly used to assess a measure's:

A) Transferability
B) Face validity
C) Generalisability
D) Reliability
E) Statistical power

Question 5

According to Salgado and Moscoso (2019) the correlation coefficient between IQ and job performance is TGIS for high complexity jobs:

A) 1.05
B) 0.5
C) −.5
D) −.95
E) 0.25

Question 6

Fill in the blanks (in the correct order, from left to right): In McCartney et al.'s (1990) study, the average correlation between the IQs of twins raised together was ____ for monozygotic twins and ____ for dizygotic twins.

A) +.81; +.59
B) +.59; +.81
C) +.63; −.59
D) −.59; +.63
E) +.81; −.59

Question 7

What concordance did Bouchard et al. (1990) find for identical twins separated at birth?

A) 0.6
B) 0.65
C) 0.7
D) 0.75
E) 0.8

Question 8

What sort of relationship did Turkheimer et al. (2003) find between genetic factors in intelligence and socio-economic status?

A) A positive correlation, both variables rise and fall together
B) A Negative correlation, as one variable goes up the other goes down
C) No relationship
D) A causal relationship
E) A curvilinear relationship

Question 9

According to Hall et al.'s (2010) categorisation, whether a child is part of a large family is represented at which level of environmental factors?

A) Home
B) Family
C) Child
D) Genetic
E) Societal

Question 10

The progressive increase in IQ in numerous countries over the past 40 to 50 years is referred to as the:

A) Hawthorne effect
B) Flynn effect
C) Forer effect
D) Halo effect
E) McGurk effect

Question 11

The apparent increase in genetic influence on individual differences in IQ from infancy to adulthood is thought to be due to:

A) Increasing agency over one's environment with age
B) Neurogenesis
C) Mutations
D) Peer pressure
E) Regression to the mean

Question 12

Which statistical technique had the biggest influence on the development of a hierarchical theory of intelligence?

A) Stratified sampling
B) Bootstrapping
C) Permutation testing
D) Factor analysis
E) Time series forecasting

Question 13

Acquired knowledge and ways of thinking fall under which umbrella term, according to the hierarchical model of intelligence?

A) Habituation
B) Fluid intelligence
C) General fluency
D) General intelligence
E) Crystallised intelligence

Question 14

Which of the following was NOT one of the seven intelligences identified by Gardner (1983)?

A) Magnetoreceptive
B) Linguistic
C) Spatial
D) Intrapersonal
E) Kinaesthetic

Question 15

Albert Einstein was Gardner's (1993) representative genius for which type of intelligence?

A) Magnetoreceptive
B) Spatial
C) Linguistic
D) Logical-mathematical
E) Interpersonal

Question 16

Of the adults with intellectual difficulties studied by Lisle (2007), what percentage expressed a preference for learning through multimodal presentation?

A) 34
B) 9
C) 30
D) 23
E) 47

Question 17

Fill in the blanks (in the proper order, from left to right): According to Geher (2004), high scorers on the EQ-i test (Bar-On, 1997) tend to be high on _______ and low on _______.

A) Extraversion; neuroticism
B) Neuroticism; extraversion
C) Conscientiousness; openness
D) Conscientiousness; neuroticism
E) Agreeableness; openness

Question 18

What type of relationship have trait and ability EI been found to have by Newman et al. (2010)?

A) A strong positive relationship
B) A strong negative relationship
C) A modest positive relationship
D) A modest negative relationship
E) No relationship

Question 19

The MSCEIT is based on the notion that all of the following are main abilities underlying emotional intelligence, EXCEPT:

A) Managing emotions
B) Perceiving emotions
C) Using emotions
D) Understanding emotions
E) Sublimating emotions