Question 1

In the first comparative study published by the National Academy of Sciences in the United States, several groups were compared according to their intelligence scores. Which groups were compared?

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Question 2

How would you interpret the terms "culture fairness" and "test transfer"?

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Question 3

Analyses of cognitive styles of people living in different cultures show that field-independent learners tend to live in predominately__________________cultures.

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Question 4

Creative thinking is not necessarily valued by the rulers of authoritarian societies. Why?

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Question 5

Which educational traditions could explain the differences in math test scores between Japanese and American high school students?

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Question 6

During the 1990s, what happened to the gap in IQ scores between U.S. urban and rural populations?

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Question 7

While reading a news website you come across an article suggesting that intelligence scores worldwide have declined. Would you agree or disagree with this journalist's assessment and why?

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Question 8

Noam Chomsky, a well-known specialist on cognition, has criticized a very popular approach to intelligence. His criticism is aimed at the assumption that an individual's success is based on ___________.

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Question 9

What is a possible reason (suggested in the textbook) for the steady rise in IQ scores that has been detected primarily in developed countries?

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Question 10

In a survey, two groups of students, Australian and Asian (including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean), were asked to provide information about so-called "self-defining memories." These memories were to be autobiographicalrecollections of events they believed shaped them as individuals. Australians provided more elaborate self-focused memories and Asians produced more elaborate memories involving ___________________

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Question 11

Binet and Simon studied whether a child, by answering a set of specially designed questions and by performing tasks, could perform _____________of his or her peers of the same age.

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Question 12

Why does the "general factor" approach inevitably encourage the assumptions that some ethnic and racial groups are fundamentally different in their intellectual abilities?

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Question 13

Describe the relationship between intelligence and intelligent behavior.

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Question 14

Describe the nativist view of intelligence.

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Question 15

Can a teacher's expectations about children's academic performance affect his or her teaching style?

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Question 16

Give examples of how national educational policies in various regions (countries) influence school curriculum.

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Question 17

If a teacher knows about ethic (racial) differences in IQ scores, how might this knowledge affect the teacher's interaction with the students of these ethnic (racial) groups?

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Question 18

Studies show the links between breastfeeding and the future cognitive performance of the child. Describe why breastfeeding may affect cognitive performance.

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Question 19

It is assumed that multicultural experiences foster the creative expansion of ideas. Consider expatriate artists and writers whose brilliant insights emerged when they left their homeland settled in a foreign country. Do you think that creativity can be sparked when a person is exposed to a foreign culture?

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Question 20

Which of the following most accurately explains the relationship between intelligence and intelligent behavior?
A) Intelligence is always practical, while intelligent behavior is not.
B) Intelligence is measured by tests. Intelligent behavior is impossible to measure.
C) Intelligent behavior is a term used to describe success on intelligence tests.
D) Intelligent behavior is based on the practical use of intelligence in specific situations.
E) There is no difference between intelligence and intelligent behavior.

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Intelligent behavior refers to the practical application of intelligence in specific situations. This means that intelligence is the general capacity to learn and understand, while intelligent behavior is the ability to use that intelligence in a practical and effective way in day-to-day life. Therefore, D is the most accurate answer.

Quiz 5: Intelligence