Question 1

What is meant by the terms reliability, validity, and standardization?

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Question 2

What two criteria must one meet to be classified as intellectually disabled?

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Question 3

What is Binet's major contribution to psychology?

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Question 4

What is the learning theory approach to language learning and what does animal research suggest about this theory?

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Question 5

Describe the "natural experiment" discussed in the book that is used to investigate the heritability of intelligence.

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Question 6

What did Wechsler's tests provide that the Stanford-Binet did not?

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Question 7

How did Gardner and Sternberg change our understanding of intelligence?

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Question 8

How does the nature-nurture controversy apply to intelligence?

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Choose two of the following psychologists associated with research or testing of intelligence and compare and contrast their approaches: Binet, Thurstone, Wechsler, Terman, Gardner, Spearman, Guilford, and Sternberg.

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Question 10

What is the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale?

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Question 11

Summarize what we currently know about the nature of intelligence from twin studies.

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Question 12

What is the linguistic relativity hypothesis, and is it supported by research?

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Question 13

What does IQ mean, and how was it originally calculated?

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Question 14

Explain the terms reliability, validity, and standardization. Why would a good intelligence test need to be reliable, valid, and standardized?

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Question 15

What is the deviation score?

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Question 16

Discuss Terman's longitudinal study of the gifted and its major findings.

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According to the Terman study, how do the gifted differ from the general population?

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Question 18

Discuss the differences between the ideas of crystallized and fluid intelligence.

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Question 19

What are the ranges of IQ scores considered average, superior, and in the range of intellectual disability?

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Question 20

What are the similarities and differences between the intelligence theories of Spearman, Thurstone, and Guilford?

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Quiz 7: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence