Chapter 9 Intelligence and IQ Testing Revel Study Guide
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Which of the following is the term that describes the age corresponding to the average individual's performance on an intelligence test? - answer-mental age
Which test is most commonly administered to assess intelligence in adults? - answer-WAIS
When we fear that we may confirm a negative ste...
Chapter 9 Intelligence and IQ Testing Revel Study
Guide
Which of the following is the term that describes the age corresponding to
the average individual's performance on an intelligence test? - answer-
mental age
Which test is most commonly administered to assess intelligence in adults? -
answer-WAIS
When we fear that we may confirm a negative stereotype about the group to
which we belong, we are experiencing the feeling of __________. - answer-
stereotype threat
Although IQ tests assess how efficiently we process information, they do not
measure our ability to process information scientifically. For instance,
measures of IQ barely correlate with measures of __________. - answer-
confirmation bias
Environmental influences on intelligence exist, such as poverty, malnutrition,
or exposure to lead. However, it is often difficult to disentangle the effects of
such influences. Why is that? - answer-Environmental factors, such as
poverty, malnutrition, or exposure to lead, tend to be correlated with one
another.
The term "progressive" in Raven's Progressive Matrices indicates that
__________. - answer-test items start off easy and increase in difficulty
The extent to which genetics influences the variability of a trait for members
of a particular group is called __________ heritability. - answer-within-group
When Robert Zajonc released his findings in the mid-1970s that showed that
later-born children have lower IQs than earlier-born children, he failed to
take into account that __________. - answer-lower-IQ parents tend to have
more children than higher-IQ parents
Although it is a complicated relationship, brain volume (or "size," as
measured by MRI) does correlate with intelligence (as measured by
performance on intellectual tasks). What is the typical range of those
correlations? - answer-.3 to .4
Two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling said that to be creative, we first
need to come up with lots of ideas and then toss out all the bad ones. This is
a good way to describe __________ thinking. - answer-convergent
, Which of the following findings is one of the lines of evidence suggesting that
schooling has a causal influence on intelligence? - answer-Dropouts have
lower IQs later in life than graduates, even if they started out with the same
IQ.
Which term refers to an early 20th-century movement to encourage people
with "good genes" to have more children and to stop those with "bad genes"
from doing so? - answer-eugenics
According to Sternberg's triarchic model, which type of intelligence do we
use when we apply our "street smarts" to size someone up or get ahead in a
job? - answer-practical intelligence
When computing adult intelligence, most modern intelligence researchers
use a statistical measure of variability to determine the __________, which
expresses individual results in relation to the norms for that age group. -
answer-deviation IQ
Data collected by the Educational Testing Service was analyzed and
researchers found a(n) __________ correlation between SAT scores and IQ as
measured by the Raven's Progressive Matrices and other tests. - answer-high
Intellectual disability is defined by three criteria: Onset before adulthood, IQ
below approximately 70, and __________. - answer-inadequate adaptive
functioning
Sir Francis Galton conducted extensive research to determine whether
__________ correlated to higher intelligence. - answer-having better sensory
capacities such as exceptional vision or hearing
Psychologists have found that __________ is easier to identify than define. -
answer-creativity
- answer-multiple intelligences
An important indicator of an IQ test's __________ is its ability to forecast or
predict future outcomes. - answer-validity
Investigations of other dimensions of intellect reveal that measures of
intelligence are only moderately correlated with measures of __________. -
answer-wisdom
Intelligence tests that rely on abstract-reasoning items rather than language-
based questions are considered to be __________. - answer-culture-fair
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