Deck 10: Section 5: Intelligence

Question 1

Which statement about intelligence tests is true?

A)Intelligence can be directly measured by intelligence tests.
B)Intelligence tests cannot be administered to people who cannot read or write.
C)The WAIS is a common intelligence test given to children.
D)The questions on intelligence tests correlate highly with the behavioral consequences thought to be associated with intelligence.

Answer 1

The questions on intelligence tests correlate highly with the behavioral consequences thought to be associated with intelligence.

Question 2

Research shows that highly emotionally intelligent people experience all of these EXCEPT:

A)better romantic relationships.
B)better workplace relationships.
C)fewer job changes.
D)less dissatisfaction with their lives overall.

Answer 2

fewer job changes.

Question 3

When you are attempting to solve an abstract word problem you have never seen before and are given 3 minutes to come up with the solution, you probably rely more on your _____ intelligence.

A)crystallized
B)fluid
C)emotional
D)nonverbal

Answer 3

fluid

Question 4

From top to bottom, the three-level hierarchy of mental abilities moves from:

A)general to specific.
B)data-based to theory-based.
C)fluid to crystallized.
D)creative to practical.

Question 5

Intelligence tests are the best predictor of:

A)marital status.
B)school performance.
C)vocabulary.
D)reading skills.

Question 6

The data-based approach to intelligence suggests that:

A)there is one factor associated with intelligence.
B)there are eight mid-level abilities contributing to intelligence.
C)there are too many contributing factors to determine the underlying basis of intelligence.
D)intelligence tests do not measure all the mid-level abilities contributing to intelligence.

Question 7

Which statement about relative and absolute intelligence is true?

A)Relative and absolute intelligence both are likely to remain stable over time.
B)Relative and absolute intelligence both are likely to change over time.
C)Relative intelligence is likely to be stable over time, whereas absolute intelligence is likely to change.
D)Relative intelligence is likely to change over time, whereas absolute intelligence is likely to be stable.

Question 8

John is a professional speech writer but struggles with simple algebra problems. John's different abilities best illustrates the view of mental ability developed by:

A)Thurstone.
B)Spearman.
C)Terman.
D)Stern.

Question 9

Which statement illustrates the effect of environment on intelligence?

A)Identical twins reared apart are more similar than fraternal twins reared together.
B)Biological siblings reared together are more similar than nonbiological siblings reared together.
C)Unrelated siblings reared together are more similar than related siblings reared apart.
D)Identical twins reared apart are more similar than biological siblings reared apart.

Question 10

An Asian American student is asked to report her ethnicity at the top of a mathematics test. Doing this will very likely:

A)boost her performance on the test.
B)hinder her performance on the test.
C)have no effect on her test performance.
D)negatively impact abstract mathematical reasoning but not performance on arithmetic problems.

Question 11

Jermaine received the highest score on a term paper in his English class. The two-factor theory of intelligence would predict that:

A)Jermaine has little musical ability.
B)Jermaine does well in Science class.
C)Jermaine receives the highest grades in Math class.
D)Jermaine performs poorly in both his Math and Science classes.

Question 12

The deviation IQ divides an individual's score by the _____, which allows for a more efficient measure of IQ among different age groups.

A)average test score of people in the same age group
B)average test score of people in different age groups
C)person's physical age
D)person's mental age

Question 13

According to the Flynn effect, your IQ score is likely _____ someone's IQ score from 100 years ago.

A)lower than
B)the same as
C)higher than
D)nearly the same as

Question 14

Evidence from identical twin studies suggests that:

A)intelligence is 100 percent genetic because the IQ scores are perfectly correlated, no matter if the children were raised together or apart.
B)genes play a significant role in determining intelligence, with high correlations when raised together or apart.
C)environmental influences significantly outweigh genetic influences.
D)intelligence is almost 100 percent environmental, due to the high correlations in intelligence among people living in the same home.

Question 15

Binet and Simon designed their intelligence test to:

A)weed out the lower-scoring immigrants emigrating into the United States.
B)weed out the lower-scoring immigrants emigrating into France.
C)identify children who needed additional instruction in school.
D)identify the academically gifted.