Question 1

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

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Question 2

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

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Question 3

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

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Question 4

How are twin studies used to study whether intelligence is inherited, and what are the findings?

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Question 5

How does the nature-nurture controversy apply to intelligence?

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What is heritability?

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Question 7

What is the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale?

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Question 8

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

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Question 9

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 10

What two criteria must one meet to be classified as mentally retarded?

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Question 11

What is the deviation score?

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Question 12

What is behavioural genetics, and what are the primary methods used in the field today?

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Question 13

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

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Question 14

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

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Question 15

Discuss the heredity versus environment issue of intelligence. Explain how the twin study method and adoption method have contributed to our understanding of how both heredity and environment play an important role in intelligence.

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Question 16

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

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Question 17

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

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Question 18

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

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Question 19

What are Jensen's, Rushton's and Herrnstein and Murray's controversial views on race and IQ?

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Question 20

How do twin studies support the view that intelligence is inherited?

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Quiz 7: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence