Deck 9: C: Intelligence and Iq Testing

Question 1

____ hypothesized that there was one single common factor (g)that accounted for the intellectual differences among people.

Answer 1

Spearman

Question 2

____ refers to the accumulated knowledge we acquire as we age.

Answer 2

Crystallized intelligence

Question 3

Because the correlation between SAT scores and college grades is approximately 0.3 or so,this test can be seen to have low ____.

Answer 3

predictive validity

Question 4

____ twins are found to have the most similar IQs.

Question 5

The ____ is the most widely used intelligence test for adults.

Question 6

____,the social movement headed by psychologists that gained momentum in the early 1900s in the United States,pushed for sterilization plans for those of low IQ.

Question 7

____ suggested that intelligence could be composed of musical ability,athletic ability,interpersonal skills,and public speaking ability.

Question 8

____was a key figure in the history of IQ testing in the United States,and he even administered (with results in the mentally retarded range)a translated version to the mayor of Chicago.

Question 9

Items asking you to arrange blocks into a particular design are found on the ____ subscale section of the WAIS.

Question 10

Stern's formula for calculating IQ is ____.

Question 11

The category of "intellectual disability" is associated with IQ scores falling under ____.

Question 12

The IQ of a 10-year-old with a mental age of 12 would be ____.

Question 13

____ proposed that intelligence was composed of analytical,practical,and creative thinking skills.

Question 14

Items on the WAIS asking you to repeat random digits forward and backward are found on the ____ subscale section of the WAIS.

Question 15

The brain region found to be most active in tasks that involve planning,reasoning,and short-term memory is the ____.

Question 16

Gardner's intelligence type that is associated with the ability to excel in the arena of sports is ____.

Question 17

An item asking you about the temperature at which water boils would be found on the ____ subscale section of the WAIS.

Question 18

The first intelligence test,created by Binet and Simon,was originally intended to be a ____.

Question 19

____ believed that genius runs in families,and he created family study research designs to further investigate his claims.

Question 20

If your IQ test score is 120 and you take the same test two months later and arrive at the same score,the test is said to be ____.

Question 21

Women tend to outscore men on some ____ tasks.

Question 22

The phenomenon of IQ test scores rising three points per decade is referred to as the ____.

Question 23

Men tend to outscore women on most ____ tasks.

Question 24

The tendency to underperform on standardized tests due to perceptions that you come from a group that has fared poorly on such tests and the fear of validating those perceptions is called ____.