Deck 10: True-False

Question 1

Henry Goddard used intelligence tests to determine which immigrant children to the United States were in need of remedial education.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

William Stern first introduced the term mental age.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The WAIS is a modern intelligence test commonly given to children.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The WAIS is a commonly used intelligence test today.

Question 5

Louis Thurstone did not believe in a general ability called intelligence.

Question 6

The first intelligence tests were developed in France.

Question 7

Charles Spearman's two factors of intelligence were fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence.

Question 8

Processing accuracy is not one of the tests on the Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale IV (WAIS-IV).

Question 9

The main reason why intelligent people earn much more money than those with less intelligence is that they get more education.

Question 10

Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon developed the first intelligence test in order to identify children who needed remedial education.

Question 11

The first intelligence tests were designed to measure achievement,not aptitude.

Question 12

On average,the more intelligent of two siblings will earn approximately double the income of the less intelligent sibling.

Question 13

Cognitive speediness is one of Louis Thurstone's primary mental abilities.

Question 14

A deviation IQ uses the concept of mental age.

Question 15

Modern researchers typically use the ratio IQ for children and the deviation IQ for adults.

Question 16

The Stanford-Binet intelligence test was modified most notably by Lewis Terman and his colleagues at Stanford University.

Question 17

Highly intelligent people live longer than do those who are less intelligent.

Question 18

In estimating the intelligence level of someone you meet for the first time,a good predictor is how long they hold your gaze during a conversation.

Question 19

Charles Spearman believed that general ability (g)existed.

Question 20

Alfred Binet introduced the ratio IQ.

Question 21

Thurstone's primary mental abilities correspond to middle-level abilities in the three-level hierarchy.

Question 22

The three-level hierarchy model of mental ability was developed using a statistical procedure called analysis of variance.

Question 23

Robert Sternberg believed there are three kinds of intelligence: analytic intelligence,creative intelligence,and practical intelligence.

Question 24

Crystallized intelligence and fluid intelligence are terms for the same underlying construct,which is known as practical intelligence.

Question 25

People with high emotional intelligence tend to exhibit greater neural activity when attempting to recognize a facial expression than do people with low emotional intelligence.

Question 26

John Carroll's research illustrates a theory-based approach to identifying middle-level abilities.

Question 27

Identical twins are also called dizygotic twins.

Question 28

Robert Sternberg defined analytic intelligence as the ability to solve complicated mathematical problems.

Question 29

Fluid intelligence is generally assessed by tests that pose novel,abstract problems that must be solved under time pressure.

Question 30

One criticism of the theory-based approach is that it cannot identify any middle-level ability that intelligence tests do not already measure.

Question 31

John Carroll believed that we have three middle-level abilities.

Question 32

John Carroll included musical intelligence in the middle-level abilities he identified through factor analysis.

Question 33

Crystallized intelligence is generally assessed by timed tests of abstract reasoning.

Question 34

Fraternal twins are also called monozygotic twins.

Question 35

Robert Sternberg believed that creative intelligence was the best single predictor of job performance.

Question 36

Robert Sternberg defined creative intelligence as the ability to generate solutions of which other people do not typically think.

Question 37

African and Asian cultures tend to include social cooperativeness in their conceptualization of intelligence.

Question 38

Robert Sternberg defined practical intelligence as the ability to apply and implement solutions in everyday settings.

Question 39

Fluid intelligence is generally assessed by tests of vocabulary,factual information,and so on.

Question 40

People with high emotional intelligence tend to be happier and more satisfied with their lives than are people with low emotional intelligence.

Question 41

Absolute intelligence tends to increase over the course of an individual's lifetime.

Question 42

Both high-SES and low-SES parents read roughly the same amount to their children.

Question 43

The IQ correlation of biological siblings raised in different households is about the same as the IQ correlation of biological siblings raised in the same household,illustrating the role of genetics in influencing intelligence.

Question 44

The Flynn Effect refers to the fact that absolute intelligence scores are increasing across generations.

Question 45

The heritability coefficient of intelligence is roughly .9.

Question 46

The IQ correlation of identical twins raised apart is higher than that of fraternal twins raised in the same household.

Question 47

Fraternal twins share more genes do than biological siblings (two parents in common)who are not born at the same time.

Question 48

As the number and variety of nonshared experiences in a population increases,the heritability coefficient of intelligence will decrease.

Question 49

The heritability coefficient of intelligence is lower in children from low-income families than it is in children from high-income families.

Question 50

Education produces large and long-lasting increases in intelligence levels.

Question 51

Being raised in a low-SES home can negatively impact brain development.

Question 52

The heritability coefficient of intelligence provides a rough estimate of how much of an individual's intelligence is determined by genes and how much of it is determined by environmental factors.

Question 53

As environments become more similar,the heritability coefficient of intelligence decreases.

Question 54

The heritability of intelligence generally increases with the age of the sample measured.

Question 55

In a large and diverse population,at least 50% of the variability in intelligence scores can be accounted for by genetic factors.

Question 56

The IQ correlation between siblings decreases as the age difference between them increases.

Question 57

One of the best predictors of intelligence is SES (socioeconomic status).

Question 58

Increases in the genetic similarity of a population are associated with an increased heritability coefficient of intelligence.

Question 59

First-born children tend to have higher IQs than do their later-born siblings.

Question 60

Monozygotic twins share 100% of their genes.

Question 61

Men tend to outscore women in abstract mathematical and scientific domains of intelligence.

Question 62

Women tend to outscore men on tests that require transformations in visual or spatial memory.

Question 63

As the percentage of European genes in an African American's genome increases,intelligence scores tend to increase.

Question 64

There is little correlation between intelligence scores and the amount of formal education people receive.

Question 65

Children who were breastfed tend to have higher IQ scores than children who were not breastfed.

Question 66

About 70% of people with intellectual disabilities are female.

Question 67

Genetic and environmental factors are independent influences on intelligence.

Question 68

Gifted children tend to be "single gifted," having exceptional skill in only one specialized domain of intelligence.

Question 69

Steele and Aronson (1995)found that European American students perform better on tests if they are asked to report their race at the top of the answer sheet.

Question 70

Differences in intelligence scores among racial groups probably are due to environmental factors.

Question 71

Women tend to outscore men on tests of verbal comprehension.

Question 72

Adderall is a mixture of amphetamine salts.

Question 73

When Asian American women are reminded of their ethnicity,they tend to do better on tests in mathematics.

Question 74

Steele and Aronson (1995)found that African American students perform more poorly on tests if they are asked to report their race at the top of the answer sheet.

Question 75

Racial differences in IQ scores exist primarily because modern intelligence tests are culturally biased.

Question 76

Gifted children,when they become adults,are more likely to make major contributions to their chosen occupations than are people who are only slightly above average in intelligence.

Question 77

The average difference in intelligence scores between groups is considerably more than the average difference in intelligence scores within groups.

Question 78

Cognitive performance can be enhanced by stimulants.

Question 79

Contrary to the prevailing myth,96% of people with Down syndrome report being happy with their lives.

Question 80

Whites typically outscore Blacks on intelligence tests.