Deck 8: A: Intelligence and Individual Differences in Cognition

Question 1

Infant IQ scores from 6-month-olds predict later IQ scores.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Young infants who habituate to visual stimuli more rapidly tend to have higher IQ scores as children.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Hierarchical theories of intelligence include both general and specific components of intelligence.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The Stanford-Binet provides a verbal IQ, a performance IQ, and an overall IQ.

Question 5

The Bayley Scales can be used to detect developmental problems.

Question 6

According to Gardner, each intelligence is regulated by distinct regions of the brain.

Question 7

Group intelligence tests provide information about many people quickly and inexpensively.

Question 8

The Bayley Scales of Infant Development consist of five scales that measure mental and motor ability.

Question 9

Charles Spearman argued that many different intelligences exist.

Question 10

Intelligence includes analytic, creative, and practical abilities, but these may not be as completely independent as Sternberg proposed initially.

Question 11

Creative ability involves knowing what solution or plan will actually work.

Question 12

Gardner believes that schools should foster all intelligences.

Question 13

Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences does not address the developmental history of the different intelligences.

Question 14

Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences is based on standardized intelligence test performance.

Question 15

Scores from infant intelligence tests are not highly related to later IQ scores because infant tests measure different abilities than tests administered to children and adolescents.

Question 16

People with greater emotional intelligence have higher self-esteem and more satisfying interpersonal relationships.

Question 17

The purpose of Binet and Simon's first intelligence test was to determine which children were likely to succeed in school.

Question 18

Analytic ability involves dealing adaptively with novel situations and problems.

Question 19

Sternberg defines successful intelligence as using one's abilities skillfully to achieve one's personal goals.

Question 20

All of Gardner's intelligences are included in psychometric theories of intelligence.

Question 21

Creativity is associated with convergent thinking.

Question 22

Dynamic testing measures what a child has learned in the past.

Question 23

Some individuals with intellectual disabilities can learn job skills and lead independent lives.

Question 24

The use of culture-fair intelligence tests eliminates ethnic differences in test scores.

Question 25

Limited intellectual skill often is defined as a score of 100 or less on an intelligence test.

Question 26

Intelligence test scores are effective in predicting success in the workplace, particularly for more complex jobs.

Question 27

The Stanford-Binet and the WISC-IV employ dynamic testing.

Question 28

Encouraging children to think of alternatives to conventional wisdom fosters creativity.

Question 29

Gifted children need like-minded peers who stimulate their interests.

Question 30

Some researchers find that self-discipline predicts grades in school even better than IQ scores do.

Question 31

The results of the Canadian Aboriginal Head Start program indicate that intervention does not improve disadvantaged children's cognitive development.

Question 32

Stereotype threat may explain why European American children have lower intelligence test scores than African American children.

Question 33

Research has shown that gifted children tend to be emotionally troubled and unable to get along with their peers.

Question 34

In terms of IQ scores, fraternal twins develop more similarly than identical twins.

Question 35

IQ scores are poor predictors of school performance.

Question 36

Modern definitions of giftedness are associated exclusively with scholastic skills.

Question 37

There are two types of factors that may put individuals at risk for intellectual disabilities: biomedical and social.

Question 38

Studies of adopted children indicate that the impact of heredity on IQ decreases during childhood and adolescence.

Question 39

Intellectual disability refers to substantial limitations in intellectual ability, as well as problems adapting to an environment, with both emerging before 18 years of age.

Question 40

Most gifted children's talent will flourish even if it is not nourished by parents or mentors.