Quiz 8 Intelligence and Psychological Testing

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Quiz 8Intelligence andPsychological
Testing
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A _____ is a standardized instrument designed
to measure a sample of a persons behavior.

• behavioral checklist
• naturalistic observation
• psychological test
• none of the above

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Which of the following is an example of a
psychological test?

• personality test
• mental ability test
• both a and b
• neither a nor b

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A mental ability test can measure an
individuals _____.

• knowledge
• intellectual functioning
• ability to perform a task
• all of the above

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Which of the following combinations is/are
correct?

• intelligence test ? measures general mental
  ability
• aptitude test ? measures previous learning and
  knowledge of a particular subject
• achievement test ? predicts future performance in
  a particular academic or vocational setting
• all of the above

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This test is an example of a(n) _____ test.

• personality
• intelligence
• aptitude
• achievement

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If a test has been standardized, _____.

• it has been constructed in such a way so that it
  can be administered and scored in the same manner
  for all those who take it
• test norms have been established so that one
  persons score can be compared meaningfully with
  the scores of others who have taken the test
• both a and b
• neither a nor b

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Dr. Shubert has been hired by a testing
company to develop a procedure to insure that all
people who take the companys tests will have the
tests administered and scored in the same manner.
If you looked at Dr. Shuberts resume, you
would probably notice that his strongest
professional expertise is in the area of test
_____.

• norms
• reliability
• validity
• standardization

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A percentile score is useful because it allows
you to understand _____.

• the concept of internal consistency
• the variability of the scores in a distribution
• the difference between test-retest and
  internal-consistency reliability scores
• where your score falls in comparison to the
  scores of other people who took the test

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Melissas life revolves around basketball,
and she is pleased that her first born child is a
son who can grow up and play for the Pacers when
Rik Smits finally decides to retire. When
Melissa read the results of her sons first
physical exam, she noticed that he scored at the
3rd percentile on the measure of height for male
infants. If Melissa understands the concept of
percentiles, this score will make her very _____
because it means that her son is _____ of all
other male infants his age.

• happy, taller than 97
• happy, shorter than only 3
• sad, shorter than 97
• both a and b

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Which of the following words would you be
most likely to find in any definition of the term
reliability?

• standardization
• validity
• consistency
• accuracy

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Tom volunteered to be a participant in a
psychology study in which he took a personality
test at the beginning and then again at the end
of the semester. The researcher in this study
was most likely measuring the _____ of this
personality test.

• content validity
• test-retest validity
• concurrent reliability
• none of the above

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Both test-retest and internal-consistency
reliability are measured by computing a _____.

• standard deviation
• correlation coefficient
• heritability ratio
• reaction range

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What would Dr. Minoso be measuring if she
gave a test to a group of people, divided the
test in half (e.g., the odd-numbered items and
the even-numbered items), and then computed a
correlation coefficient of the scores of these
two halves?

• test-retest reliability
• internal-consistency reliability
• criterion-related validity
• concurrent validity

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A reliable test _____, and a valid test _____.

• measures what it is supposed to measure, is
  consistent
• is consistent, measures what it is supposed to
  measure
• can predict behaviors accurately, produces
  approximately the same score each time it is
  administered
• both a and c

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There are three main types of validity.
Which of the following is not one of them?

• content
• criterion-related
• construct
• contextual

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Bonnie's psychology teacher told her class
that their final exam would be comprehensive
(i.e., it would cover material from the entire
textbook and all the lectures), but the only
questions he asked came from the first five
chapters in the textbook and his last two
lectures. Bonnie performed very poorly on her
final exam and decided to appeal her low grade to
the Academic Dean on the basis of the low _____
validity of her teacher's test.

• criterion-related
• test-retest
• content
• alternate-forms

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Concurrent validity is to _____, as
predictive validity is to _____.

• the same time, the future
• the future, the same time
• behavior, mental process
• mental process, behavior

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Dr. Halonen wants to know if the SAT does a
good job of predicting who will graduate from
college in four years and who will not. To
investigate this question, she decides to record
the SAT scores of all the freshmen admitted to
her college in the fall of 2000 and then look for
their names on the 2005 graduation program. Dr.
Halonen is testing the _____ validity of the SAT.

• content
• concurrent
• predictive
• construct

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A _____ test has criterion-related validity
if peoples scores on that test are highly
correlated with their ______.

• college aptitude, grades in college
• salesmanship, number of sales completed
• tennis talent, number of tennis matches won
• all of the above

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Which of the following types of validity is
used to measure the ability of a test to measure
a particular hypothetical construct?

• content
• concurrent
• criterion-related
• construct

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Which of the following is a step in the
determination of the construct validity of a
critical-thinking test?

• choose a concept you believe is related to
  critical thinking (e.g., intelligence) and a
  concept you believe is not related to critical
  thinking (e.g., physical dexterity)
• give a group of subjects your critical-thinking
  test, an intelligence test, and a test of
  physical dexterity
• correlate the scores on the critical-thinking
  test with those of the intelligence and physical
  dexterity tests
• all of the above

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Which of the following combinations is
correct?

• concurrent validity ? material tested
• content validity ? hypothetical construct
• construct validity ? the future
• criterion-related validity ? predict

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The first intelligence test was _____.

• developed in France
• created by Binet and Simon
• used to identify school children with special
  needs
• all of the above

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Which of the following children would be
considered retarded by Binet and Simon?

• Jean, who cannot answer questions that 60-90 of
  other children his age can answer
• Claude, whose chronological age is 5 and whose
  mental age is 7
• Pierre, whose mental age is 5 and whose
  chronological age is 7
• both a and c

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The formula for determining IQ is _____.

• mental age 100 x chronological age
• chronological age x 100 mental age
• chronological age mental age x 100
• mental age chronological age x 100

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The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
is different from both the Binet-Simon and the
Stanford-Binet because it _____.

• uses an IQ score rather than a deviation score
• was developed for adults rather than children
• yields an overall score rather than a performance
  score and a verbal score
• all of the above

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The correct order of the development of the
first three important intelligence tests was
_____.

• Binet-Simon ? Stanford-Binet ? WAIS
• Stanford-Binet ? Binet-Simon ? WAIS
• WAIS ? Stanford-Binet ? Binet-Simon
• Binet-Simon ? WAIS ? Stanford-Binet

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Which of the following is true about the WAIS?

• Its mean is 15 and its standard deviation is 100.
• More than 80 of the people who take it score
  either above or below the normal range.
• It is designed to test the IQ of children.
• none of the above

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Dr. Sixty asked her students to tell her one
interesting thing they had learned about
intelligence tests from their textbook. Which
one of them was confused about what he read?

• George IQ tests actually measure a combination
  of both intellectual potential and previous
  knowledge.
• Roger Although IQ scores are valid for
  measuring many difference types of abilities,
  they are least accurate for measuring academic
  ability.
• Sammy The IQ scores of preschool children do
  not accurately predict their adult IQ scores.
• Mark Most IQ tests are very reliable.

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In order to be classified as mentally
retarded, a person must _____.

• have an IQ score below 70
• exhibit deficiencies in everyday adaptive
  functioning
• have exhibited both a and b before the age of 18
• all of the above

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Bill can care for himself, finished the 6th
grade, has a job, is married, and has children.
Which of the following is most likely to be true
of Bill?

• His IQ is somewhere between 35 to 55.
• He would function best in a highly structured
  situation.
• He would be classified as being mildly retarded.
• He most likely suffers from some type of
  neurological disorder.

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Jeromes IQ is 20. He has very poor language
and self-help skills, suffers from a neurological
disorder, and functions well only in a highly
structured environment with one-on-one
supervision. Jerome would most likely be
classified as _____ retarded.

• mildly
• moderately
• profoundly
• severely

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Jenny has been classified as a gifted child.
This means that she _____.

• falls into the upper 20 of the IQ distribution
• has an IQ score of 150 or above
• has superior potential in specific aptitudes,
  general intelligence, leadership, performing
  arts, athletics, or creativity
• all of the above

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Which of the following combinations about
theories of intelligence is correct?

• Spearman ? genetic factors
• Sternberg ? the g and s factors
• Guilford ? operations, contents, and products
• Galton ? componential, experiential, and
  contextual intelligence

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_____ would be most likely to say that if
John is bright in one school subject (e.g.,
math), then he will be bright in other subjects
as well (e.g., English).

• Galton
• Sternberg
• Guilford
• Spearman

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Guilford said intelligence is composed of
three dimensions. Which of the following
dimension ? examples combinations is correct?

• products ? implications, relationships, and
  classifications
• operations ? memory, evaluation, and convergent
  or divergent thinking
• contents ? things, symbols, and behaviors
• all of the above

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According to Sternbergs triarchic theory of
intelligence, if Brian is high in _____
intelligence, then he _____.

• contextual, is street smart
• componential, can use old experiences to solve
  new problems creatively
• experiential, would score high on a traditional
  IQ test
• all of the above

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18-year-old Karen and her 80-year-old
grandmother Pearl took two IQ tests, one that
measures fluid intelligence and one that measures
crystallized intelligence. If Karen and Pearl
are similar to other people their age, then Karen
will score higher on the test of _____
intelligence and Pearl will score higher on the
test of _____ intelligence.

• crystallized, fluid
• fluid, crystallized
• Their scores are likely to be the same.
• Not enough information has been given to answer
  this question.

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If Sir Frances Galton was in charge of
issuing marriage licenses and you wanted to get
married, then he would require you and your
future spouse to take a(n) _____ test before he
would issue you a license.

• blood
• IQ
• marital aptitude
• social compatibility

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When the amount of genetic overlap between
siblings is compared to the correlation between
the IQ scores of these siblings, the results
indicate that the _____ closely you are related
to a sibling, the _____ the similarity of your IQ
scores.

• more, greater
• less, smaller
• both a and b
• neither a nor b

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The results reported in the previous question
lend support to the theory that _____ is a
stronger determiner of intelligence than _____.

• environment, heredity
• heredity, environment
• nurture, nature
• both a and c

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Psychologists use a _____ to estimate the
degree to which a trait such as intelligence is
due to hereditary factors.

• reaction range
• deviation score
• percentile score
• heritability ratio

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Which of the following research findings
supports the theory that IQ is influenced by
environmental factors?

• The IQ scores of siblings who are raised together
  are more similar than the IQ scores of siblings
  who are raised apart.
• Children who are raised in deprived environments
  show a gradual decline in IQ.
• Children who are raised in deprived environments
  and then transferred to more simulating
  environments show increases in their IQ scores.
• all of the above

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Dr. Thurston believes that heredity places
limits on your intelligence and your environment
determines where your IQ will actually fall
within those limits. If you read one of Dr.
Thurtons books, you would encounter the term
_____ most often.

• giftedness
• reaction range
• eugenics
• environmental ratio

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Which of the following statements about the
heredity vs. environment IQ debate appear(s) to
be true?

• heredity has an important effect upon
  intelligence
• environment has an important effect upon
  intelligence
• genetics can affect the environment of a child,
  and thus both heredity and environment can have
  an important effect upon intelligence
• all of the above

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Johns skinhead cousin Adolf loves to report
the fact that the average IQ score of many
minority groups is several points points below
the average IQ score of Caucasions. Before
taking B104, John was unable to counter Adolfs
argument that Caucasions are the superior race,
but now he can. Which of the following pieces of
information from B104 can John use to support his
argument that there is no clear evidence to
support his cousins racial superiority theory of
intelligence?

• Members of minority groups often have exposure to
  fewer educational choices or opportunities than
  Caucasions.
• Members of minority groups are more likely to
  suffer economic discrimination and come from
  single-parent families than Caucasions.
• Most IQ tests are written by middle-class
  Caucasion psychologists, and the contents of
  these tests may not reflect the knowledge and
  ways of minority cultures.
• all of the above