Psych 12AP Chapter 11 Practice Test - McConnell



Psych 12AP Chapter 11 Practice Test Key

|1. |The widespread improvement in intelligence test performance during the past century is called: |

| |A) |the bell curve. |

| |B) |divergent thinking. |

| |C) |the g factor. |

| |D) |standardization. |

| |E) |the Flynn effect. |

|2. |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. |

|3. |Research on racial and ethnic differences in intelligence indicates that: |

| |A) |desegregation has actually decreased the academic achievement of black American children. |

| |B) |the average mathematics achievement test scores of Asian children are notably higher than those of North American |

| | |children. |

| |C) |among American Blacks, those with African ancestry receive the highest intelligence test scores. |

| |D) |the Black-White difference in SAT scores has increased since 1979. |

| |E) |the average vocabulary achievement test scores of North American and Asian children are about the same. |

|4. |The components of creativity include: |

| |A) |impulsivity and empathy. |

| |B) |expertise and a venturesome personality. |

| |C) |competitiveness and dogmatism. |

| |D) |imagination and extrinsic motivation. |

| |E) |competitiveness and empathy. |

|5. |The best predictor that infants will develop high levels of intellectual aptitude is their: |

| |A) |readiness to crawl at an early age. |

| |B) |capacity for imitating adult facial expressions. |

| |C) |tendency to quickly shift their gaze from a familiar to a novel picture. |

| |D) |ability to discriminate their mother's voice from that of a female stranger. |

| |E) |head circumference at birth in relation to their total weight. |

|6. |Generating multiple possible answers to a problem illustrates: |

| |A) |neural plasticity. |

| |B) |factor analysis. |

| |C) |predictive validity. |

| |D) |divergent thinking. |

| |E) |framing skills. |

|7. |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. |

|8. |The written exam for a driver's license would most likely be considered a(n) ________ test. |

| |A) |achievement |

| |B) |reliability |

| |C) |interest |

| |D) |aptitude |

| |E) |intelligence |

|9. |Robert Sternberg distinguished among analytical, practical, and ________ intelligence. |

| |A) |intrapersonal |

| |B) |creative |

| |C) |spatial |

| |D) |musical |

| |E) |physical |

|10. |Academic aptitude test scores are most likely to predict accurately the academic success of ________ students. |

| |A) |pre-school |

| |B) |elementary school |

| |C) |high school |

| |D) |college |

| |E) |graduate school |

|11. |Although Nicole scored well above average on the SAT, she frequently loses her temper and needlessly antagonizes even her best |

| |friends. Her behavior best illustrates a low level of: |

| |A) |convergent thinking. |

| |B) |validity. |

| |C) |the g factor. |

| |D) |mental age. |

| |E) |emotional intelligence. |

|12. |A 12-year-old who responded to the original Stanford-Binet with the proficiency typical of an average 9-year-old was said to |

| |have an IQ of: |

| |A) |75. |

| |B) |85. |

| |C) |115. |

| |D) |125. |

| |E) |133. |

|13. |Whenever Arlo reminded himself that his musical skills could earn him fame and fortune, he became less creative in his musical |

| |performance. This best illustrates that creativity may be inhibited by: |

| |A) |the Flynn effect. |

| |B) |a venturesome personality. |

| |C) |the g factor. |

| |D) |emotional intelligence. |

| |E) |extrinsic motivation. |

|14. |Factor analysis is a statistical procedure that can be used to: |

| |A) |derive IQ scores by comparing mental age with chronological age. |

| |B) |evaluate how accurately test items predict a criterion behavior. |

| |C) |extract test norms from a standardization sample. |

| |D) |identify clusters of closely related test items. |

| |E) |provide a quantitative estimate of heritability. |

|15. |If both depressed and nondepressed individuals receive similar scores on a diagnostic test for depression, it suggests that the |

| |test: |

| |A) |has not been standardized. |

| |B) |is not valid. |

| |C) |is not reliable. |

| |D) |has not been factor-analyzed. |

| |E) |does not produce scores that form a normal distribution. |

|16. |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. |

|17. |Those who define intelligence as academic aptitude are most likely to criticize: |

| |A) |Terman's concept of innate intelligence. |

| |B) |Spearman's concept of general intelligence. |

| |C) |Binet's concept of mental age. |

| |D) |Gardner's concept of multiple intelligences. |

| |E) |Sternberg's concept of analytical intelligence. |

|18. |Comparing the average performance of the initial WAIS standardization sample with the average performance of the most recent |

| |WAIS standardization sample provides convincing evidence of: |

| |A) |heritability. |

| |B) |the g factor. |

| |C) |the Flynn effect. |

| |D) |emotional intelligence. |

| |E) |intrinsic motivation. |

|19. |Researchers assess the correlation between scores obtained on two halves of a single test in order to measure the ________ of a |

| |test. |

| |A) |validity |

| |B) |reliability |

| |C) |standardization |

| |D) |normal distribution |

| |E) |factor analysis |

|20. |To regard an abstract concept as if it were a real, concrete thing is called: |

| |A) |convergent thinking. |

| |B) |heritability. |

| |C) |factor analysis. |

| |D) |reification. |

| |E) |standardization. |

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