Exam 10: Intelligence

In the Abecedarian Program a particularly notable effect was found for children whose mothers were mentally retarded. Every one of these children who had early intervention had attained an IQ at least _____ points higher than those in the control group.

Critics question whether emotional intelligence is a type of intelligence as opposed to emotional competence as they argue it is not a mental ability. Proponents of emotional intelligence counter that

Research on IQ differences between African American and Caucasian students indicates that

You have designed a new intelligence test and want to make sure that it is a good test. You can assess and correct a number of problems, but you will never be able to achieve perfect

Your child is nervous about an IQ test that they are scheduled to take in the near future. You try to explain that it's only an estimate and people disagree about how to measure intelligence, let alone how to even define it. They ask you if the average IQ score has changed over the many years these tests have been done. What would you tell them?

In order to examine your new intelligence test consisting of 10 different subscales, you conduct a factor analysis. The analysis yields five factors. Your results are most consistent with

In the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, children were followed up till their adulthood. The results showed that the early education group had all of the following EXCEPT ______.

According to Charles Spearman, a person's ability to do well on a test of mathematical ability and their ability to do well on a test of verbal ability would ___________.

What kinds of evidence supported the existence of Spearman's g factor?

In Carroll's three-stratum model of cognitive abilities, the most general level of ability (stratum III) corresponds to

Spearman's research convinced him that eminent people had "inherited mental constitutions."

Males typically do slightly better than females on most spatial tasks, whereas females do slightly better than males on tests of verbal fluency.

The following two assumptions: mental abilities develop with age and the rate of developmental change is relatively constant for a given individual, were assumptions made by __________.

You want to examine the internal consistency of your new intelligence test. Which of the following would you do?

You are looking at a normal distribution of IQ scores. A friend thinks that the graph is really cool and wants to know what score would place 50% of the population above the mean. You immediately say

Jay and Jackie are opening a new business and need to hire several employees. They decide to give the prospective employees an intelligence test but can't decide what it is they want to measure. Jay thinks they should find out how much the prospective employees already know. But Jackie thinks that the person's ability to learn new things is more important for their new business. Based on their intentions to measure different aspects, Jay should use a(n) ___________ test and Jackie should use a(n) ____________ test.

Sally has an IQ of 140 and a mental age of 14. According to Stern's IQ formula, how old is Sally?

According to Stern's measure, an 8-year-old boy with a mental age of 4 would have an IQ of ___________.

Marcella is testing a wiggly 4-year-old on an intelligence test. On one item the child blurts out an answer without obviously trying to think about the best response. Marcella responds by telling the child he is doing a good job on the test so far. She then asks the same question again asking the child to think about it for a moment and highlighting some important aspects of the question. The type of test administration Marcella is using is known as

Which of the following statements regarding intelligence is most accurate?