Multiple Choice Questions

The average difference in intellectual aptitude scores of white and black college graduates has been observed to be greatest when these individuals were:
  • c. similar; dissimilar
  • c. high; low
  • b. high school juniors.
  • any of the above.
Unlike today's most widely used intelligence tests, the original Stanford-Binet can be most clearly criticized with respect to its:
  • a. standardization sample.
  • c. similar; dissimilar
  • a. emotional intelligence
  • b. spatially analyzing visual input.
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:
  • c. the Flynn factor
  • d. decrease; have little effect on
  • b. the Flynn effect.
  • e. emotional intelligence.
With increasing age, adopted children's intelligence test scores become ________ positively correlated with their adoptive parents' scores and ________ positively correlated with their biological parent's scores.
  • d. less; more
  • b. reliability
  • b. is not valid.
  • d. tenth-grade; 95
Psychologists measure the correlation between aptitude test scores and school grades in order to assess the ________ of the aptitude test.
  • c. reliability
  • e. validity
  • b. is not valid.
  • d. normal curve
Margaret is mildly mentally retarded. She has achieved the equivalent of a fifth grade education and will soon begin vocational training so that she can earn a living. Margaret's intelligence score is most likely between:
  • d. 50 and 70.
  • b. increasingly improved childhood health and nutrition.
  • a. standardization
  • d. Gardner's concept of multiple intelligences.
The heritability of intelligence is lowest among genetically ________ individuals who have been raised in ________ environments.
  • c. similar; dissimilar
  • b. improved; declined
  • b. positive; less than
  • c. spatial abilities.
If a test yields consistent results every time it is used, it has a high degree of:
  • b. the Flynn effect.
  • c. reliability
  • e. validity
  • b. creativity
The decline in college aptitude test scores during the 1960s and 1970s was due in part to:
  • b. the average mathematics achievement test scores of Asian children are notably higher than those of North American children.
  • b. limiting the concept of giftedness to superior academic aptitude.
  • a. a diverse set of distinct abilities.
  • a. the increasing academic diversity of students taking these tests.
Most experts would agree that intelligence tests are "biased" in the sense that:
  • d. will have difficulty adapting to the normal demands of independent adult life.
  • a. test performance is influenced by cultural experiences.
  • a. retrieve information from memory at an unusually rapid speed
  • d. mental age divided by chronological age and multiplied by 100.
Research indicates that Head Start programs:
  • d. will have difficulty adapting to the normal demands of independent adult life.
  • d. mental age divided by chronological age and multiplied by 100.
  • b. a person's test performance can be compared with that of a pretested group.
  • c. reduce the likelihood that participants will repeat grades or require special education classes.
Howard Gardner is most likely to agree that the concept of intelligence includes:
  • b. ability to learn from experience.
  • a. opposite sex fraternal twins
  • b. spatially analyzing visual input.
  • a. a diverse set of distinct abilities.
The ability to control one's impulses and delay immediate pleasures in pursuit of long-term goals is most clearly a characteristic of:
  • b. high school juniors.
  • a. reliability
  • a. emotional intelligence
  • d. slightly positive; moderately positive
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