Exam 9: Intelligence

Describe how African Americans have been unfairly stigmatized because of their performance on standardized IQ tests, and state the counterarguments against the claim that IQ differences among races are due to genetics.

Compared to adopted children who grow up in low socioeconomic status (SES)homes, adopted children who grow up in high SES homes develop

The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale is

The test items selected for an intelligence test provide an operational definition of intelligence.

Lewis Terman is known for

A person with limited intelligence, but who shows exceptional mental ability in one or more narrow areas, such as mental arithmetic, calendar calculations, art, or music is said to have

Regarding Down syndrome, which of the following statements is FALSE?

If you score at the 50th percentile on an intelligence test, this means that your IQ is

The items that Binet included on his test were based on the

If presented with a question from a modern IQ test, such as "How are dogs and rabbits alike?" you might abstractly answer correctly that "They are both mammals," while people, like your grandparents, 50 years ago would have been more likely to give a concrete, functional answer like "Dogs hunt rabbits," which modern IQ tests would score as wrong. Regarding this comparison, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Jake's mother drank heavily while she was pregnant with Jake. Consequently, Jake has fetal alcohol syndrome. His intellectual disability would be classified, according to cause as

Only two people out of 100 score above 130 on IQ tests.

Humans owe their success more to their thinking abilities than to physical strength or speed.

Regarding the comparison of identical twins reared together and apart, which of the following statements is FALSE?

At birth, Gordy was found to have a severe thyroid deficiency and was put on thyroid hormone replacement to prevent an intellectual disability from occurring. Gordy has the condition known as

Gerald is an affectionate, well-behaved, cooperative individual with a severe intellectual disability, who is institutionalized. Gerald's disability is a rare one in which his skull failed to grow causing his brain to develop in a limited space. Gerald has the condition known as

While a robot might do a spiffy job of solving Rubik's Cube puzzles, its main contribution is to duplicate human thinking and decision making in order to help us understand how people solve problems. Thus, the robot is an example of a

Which level of intellectual disability makes up about 85 percent of all those affected with these individuals benefiting from carefully structured education, being capable of living alone or marrying, but who tend to have difficulties with many of the demands of adult life?

Gerald has an IQ of 30 and has mastered some very basic language and self-help skills. He will need an extensive level of support from others with his educational needs being classified as dependent. Gerald's level of intellectual disability is

Which of the following is a group multiple aptitude test that was designed to predict one's chances of success in college, and can also be used to estimate general intelligence?