Practice Questions Unit 11 Intelligence – Assessment ...



Practice Questions Unit 11 Intelligence – Assessment/Nature & Nurture

|1. |Intelligence tests were initially designed by Binet and Simon to assess |

|A) |academic aptitude. |

|B) |inductive reasoning. |

|C) |emotional intelligence. |

|D) |savant syndrome. |

|E) |heritability. |

|2. |To assess mental age, Binet and Simon measured children's |

|A) |head size. |

|B) |reasoning skills. |

|C) |muscular power. |

|D) |neural processing speed. |

|E) |creative abilities. |

|3. |Five-year-old Benjy has an IQ of 120 on the original version of the Stanford-Binet. His mental age is |

|A) |4. |

|B) |6. |

|C) |8. |

|D) |9. |

|E) |12. |

|4. |Who would have been the LEAST enthusiastic about relying on eugenics for the improvement of human intellectual functioning? |

|A) |Plato |

|B) |Alfred Binet |

|C) |Lewis Terman |

|D) |Charles Darwin |

|E) |Francis Galton |

|5. |Tests designed to assess what a person has learned are called ________ tests. |

|A) |factor analysis |

|B) |aptitude |

|C) |standardized |

|D) |achievement |

|E) |ability |

|6. |Tests designed to predict ability to learn new skills are called |

|A) |achievement tests. |

|B) |interest inventories. |

|C) |factor analytic measures. |

|D) |standardized assessments. |

|E) |aptitude tests. |

|7. |The final exam in a calculus course would be an example of a(n) ________ test. |

|A) |aptitude |

|B) |achievement |

|C) |standardized |

|D) |general intelligence |

|E) |diagnostic |

|8. |Molly has just taken a test of her capacity to learn to be a computer programmer. This is an example of a(n) ________ test. |

|A) |validity |

|B) |achievement |

|C) |interest |

|D) |aptitude |

|E) |factor analysis |

|9. |The WAIS consists of separate ________ subtests. |

|A) |intelligence and creativity |

|B) |aptitude and achievement |

|C) |practical and analytic |

|D) |verbal and performance |

|E) |emotions and reasoning |

|10. |When a person's test performance can be compared with that of a representative and pretested sample of people, the test is said |

| |to be |

|A) |reliable. |

|B) |standardized. |

|C) |valid. |

|D) |normally distributed. |

|E) |internally consistent. |

|11. |The distribution of intelligence test scores in the general population forms a bell-shaped pattern. This pattern is called a |

|A) |standardization sample. |

|B) |reliability coefficient. |

|C) |factor analysis. |

|D) |normal curve. |

|E) |savant syndrome. |

|12. |About ________ percent of WAIS scores fall between 70 and 130. |

|A) |10 |

|B) |30 |

|C) |60 |

|D) |70 |

|E) |95 |

|13. |The widespread improvement in intelligence test performance during the past century is called |

|A) |the normal curve. |

|B) |stereotype threat. |

|C) |the g factor. |

|D) |standardization. |

|E) |the Flynn effect. |

|14. |The Flynn effect best illustrates that the process of intelligence testing requires up-to-date |

|A) |factor analyses. |

|B) |standardization samples. |

|C) |reliability indices. |

|D) |heritability estimates. |

|E) |intelligence quotients. |

|15. |The Flynn effect is LEAST likely to be explained in terms of |

|A) |changes in human genetic characteristics. |

|B) |increasing educational opportunities. |

|C) |reductions in family size. |

|D) |improvements in infant nutrition. |

|E) |greater access to technology. |

|16. |If a test yields consistent results every time it is used, it has a high degree of |

|A) |standardization. |

|B) |predictive validity. |

|C) |reliability. |

|D) |content validity. |

|E) |heritability. |

|17. |A test that measures or predicts what it is supposed to is said to have a high degree of |

|A) |validity. |

|B) |standardization. |

|C) |reliability. |

|D) |the g factor. |

|E) |factor analysis. |

|18. |Dr. Bronfman has administered her new 100-item test of abstract reasoning to a large sample of students. She is presently |

| |comparing their scores on the odd-numbered questions with those on the even-numbered questions in an effort to |

|A) |determine the test's validity. |

|B) |determine the test's reliability. |

|C) |standardize the test. |

|D) |factor-analyze the test. |

|E) |correlate abstract reasoning abilities. |

|19. |A college administrator is trying to assess whether an admissions test accurately predicts how well applicants will perform at |

| |his school. The administrator is most obviously concerned that the test is |

|A) |standardized. |

|B) |valid. |

|C) |factor-analyzed. |

|D) |normally distributed. |

|E) |reliable. |

|20. |The Wilsons note that their 6-month-old daughter Beth seems to be developing more slowly and is not as playful as other infants |

| |her age. Research suggests that |

|A) |Beth's intelligence score will be below average in childhood but not necessarily in adulthood. |

|B) |Beth's intelligence score will be below average in both childhood and adulthood. |

|C) |casual observation of Beth's behavior cannot be used to predict her later intelligence score. |

|D) |Beth's performance intelligence score but not necessarily her verbal intelligence score will be below average in both |

| |childhood and adulthood. |

|E) |observations of Beth's early behavior may be highly predictive of the later development of Down syndrome. |

|21. |A condition involving intellectual disability caused by an extra chromosome in one's genetic makeup is known as |

|A) |the Flynn effect. |

|B) |functional fixedness. |

|C) |Down syndrome. |

|D) |savant syndrome. |

|E) |autism. |

|22. |Hanan, a 22-year-old, has an intellectual disability. Although not fully self-supporting, she earns some money by working in a |

| |sheltered workshop. She has been able to master basic skills equivalent to those of a second-grader. Hanan's intelligence test |

| |score is most likely between |

|A) |5 and 19. |

|B) |20 and 34. |

|C) |35 and 49. |

|D) |50 and 69. |

|E) |70 and 130. |

|23. |Twin and adoption studies are helpful for assessing the ________ of intelligence. |

|A) |predictive validity |

|B) |reliability |

|C) |heritability |

|D) |standardization |

|E) |content validity |

|24. |The heritability of intelligence refers to |

|A) |the extent to which an individual's intelligence is attributable to genetic factors. |

|B) |the percentage of variation in intelligence within a group that is attributable to genetic factors. |

|C) |the extent to which a group's intelligence is attributable to genetic factors. |

|D) |a general underlying intelligence factor that is measured by every task on an intelligence test. |

|E) |the extent to which the environment plays a role in the intelligence of biologically related siblings. |

|25. |The similarity between the intelligence test scores of identical twins raised apart is |

|A) |less than that between children and their biological parents. |

|B) |equal to that between identical twins reared together. |

|C) |equal to that between fraternal twins reared together. |

|D) |greater than that between ordinary siblings reared together. |

|E) |equal to that between adopted siblings reared together. |

|26. |The importance of environmental influences on intelligence is provided by evidence that |

|A) |general intelligence scores predict performance on a variety of complex tasks. |

|B) |the intellectual development of neglected children in impoverished environments is often depressed. |

|C) |identical twins reared together have more similar intelligence scores than fraternal twins reared together. |

|D) |mental similarities between adopted children and their adoptive families increase with age. |

|E) |the average IQ scores of children are generally within one standard deviation of their parents' IQ scores. |

|27. |Everyone would agree that intelligence tests are “biased” in the sense that |

|A) |test performance is influenced by cultural experiences. |

|B) |the reliability of intelligence tests is close to zero. |

|C) |the heritability of intelligence is very high. |

|D) |numerical scores of intelligence serve to dehumanize individuals. |

|E) |reliability may be low but the content validity of IQ tests is high. |

|28. |Interventions that promote intelligence teach early teens that the brain is like a muscle that strengthens with use. This idea |

| |is designed to encourage the teens to view intelligence as |

|A) |a reflection of the g factor. |

|B) |a biologically determined capacity. |

|C) |changeable over time. |

|D) |distributed in a bell-shaped pattern. |

|E) |an inborn trait with strengths and weaknesses. |

|29. |Girls are most likely to outperform boys in a |

|A) |spelling bee. |

|B) |mathematical reasoning test. |

|C) |computer programming contest. |

|D) |chess tournament. |

|E) |logical reasoning test. |

|30. |Boys are most likely to outperform girls in a(n) |

|A) |essay contest. |

|B) |chess tournament. |

|C) |speed-reading tournament. |

|D) |spelling bee. |

|E) |speech-giving contest. |

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