Exam 9: A: Intelligence Intelligence

Doing well on a standardized test requires specialized abilities different from those of other tests.

On average,people with high IQ scores have fewer car accidents than people with low IQ scores.

If one group does better on some test,on average,than another group does,we can conclude that the test is biased.​

Genetic differences have a bigger influence on IQ differences for impoverished children than for middle-class children.

Research has demonstrated the importance of determining a child's learning style and then educating some children visually and others verbally.

On a standardized IQ test,the mean score is _________.

It is possible for a test to have high reliability and low validity.

If a test is not useful for its intended purpose,it may or may not have high reliability,but we know it has low ______.​

If people of a particular group do better in school than their test scores predict,we say the test is __________.

Since the early days of IQ tests,psychologists have periodically rewritten the tests.Their revisions have intentionally made the tests more ____________________ than they used to be.

​Scores on tests of language,logic,spatial reasoning,and other cognitive abilities all correlate positively with one another.

SAT scores have lower validity for predicting students' college grades at highly selective colleges than at colleges that admit almost anyone.

On average,girls get higher scores on IQ tests than boys do.

It is possible for a test to have low reliability and high validity.

What would be the strongest evidence that an IQ test is biased against some group?

Define stereotype threat,and describe the findings from Claude Steele's classic study on stereotype threat.​

Describe two explanations for the g factor in intelligence.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Raven's Progressive Matrices for measuring intelligence,as compared to other common IQ tests such as the Stanford-Binet and Wechsler tests?

If a researcher asks a group of people to take the same test repeatedly,the researcher is probably trying to determine the _________ of the test scores.