Exam 10: Intelligence

According to the text, the term ___________ is defined as the individual differences in the ability to acquire knowledge, to think and to reason effectively, and to deal adaptively with the environment.

The company you work for has started to give potential hires an aptitude test. What are they screening for?

___________ was one of the individuals to lay the foundation for later research of intelligence. He thought that intelligence was a function of "efficiency of the nervous system" and therefore tried to measure intelligence with tests that, for example, assessed reaction and sensory acuity.

The Flynn effect is most likely independent of nutritional and technological advances.

According to Renzulli, the factors that tend to lead to success in gifted individuals include all of the following EXCEPT

Women tend to outperform men on all of the following skills EXCEPT ____________.

In testing, one way to compensate for the differences the students may have had in learning opportunities is to use __________ testing.

Research has found that greater gains in intelligence are found if schools teach specific cognitive skills for particular subjects rather than teaching to general mental ability.

Both the intellectually gifted and the intellectually disabled need

According to Sternberg's Triarchic theory of intelligence, if you were poor in the performance component portion you would have difficulty

L.L. Thurstone believed that intelligence was made up of seven distinct abilities, which he called ___________.

Which of the following formulas was originally used by William Stern to determine a person's intelligence quotient?

If you were on the selection committee for your university's medical school, your best measure of a successful candidate would be to have test results from

Using Stern's intelligence quotient, if Susie is 6 years old and has a mental age of the average 9-year-old, her IQ would be

With respect to a correlation, intelligence is related to brain size in which of the following ways

Based on the research examining brain areas and intelligence, we can conclude that women's brains (as compared with men's brains)

What is the Flynn effect? What explanations have been suggested?

The medical examiner noticed on autopsy that a particular patient has a larger than normal amount of connectivity in his white matter. All things being equal, we would expect that this person

Jake took a severe blow to the head during last Saturday's hockey game. At the hospital, Jake had a CAT scan and along with finding out that he only suffered a minor concussion, Jake's doctor told him he had an unusually large brain for a man his size and age. Jake bragged about this fact at school because he believed this meant he was more intelligent than others, until Julie pointed out to him that

Musical, visuospatial and interpersonal intelligence are examples of Gardner's model of intelligence?