Exam 7: Cognition and Mental Abilities

Compare and contrast reliability and validity. Discuss two different types of each.

The Head Start program ________.

Using the criteria of meaningfulness, displacement, and productivity, ________.

An admissions director for a college decides to keep the existing admissions policy since 80% of the students admitted eventually graduate. Unknown to her, 90 percent of the rejected applicants would also have been successful graduates. Her decision- making process is hampered by ________.

Little can be done to improve the behavioral and mental skills of children who are mentally retarded.

A seemingly arbitrary flash "out of the blue," where the solution to a problem suddenly becomes apparent to you, but you do not consciously know how you "figured it out," is called ________.

Which of the following is not a type of heuristic?

IQ tests are a relatively good measure of creativity.

People with high IQ's tend to enter high-status occupations.

Higher grades and intelligence test scores predict ________.

Which of the following is not one of the three areas of intelligence described by Sternberg?

Rules of thumb that do not guarantee a solution but may help bring one within reach are called ________.

The first intelligence test was designed by ________.

The ________ theory of the relationship between intelligence and creativity says that a person must be at least slightly more intelligent than average to be considered creative, but beyond that point, the two are not related.

Prenatal nutrition affects IQ scores.

Problem-solving methods that guarantee solutions if appropriate and properly executed are called ________.

An individual intelligence test designed especially for school-aged children that yields verbal and performance scores, as well as an overall IQ score, is the ________.

________ proposed a triarchic theory of intelligence.

The Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test is an example of a culture-fair test.

Trial and error ________.