Exam 10: Intelligence

Dorinda tells you that her 12-year-old cousin recently completed an intelligence test that translated raw scores into deviation IQ scores.Dorinda knows that her cousin's deviation IQ score was 75, but she is not sure what this means.You should tell her that her cousin:

Which of the following is an incorrect statement concerning Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence?

Spearman called the aspect of intelligence that underlies or contributes to performance on a variety of mental tests: ____________________.

Creativity refers to the ability to:

In the abbreviation IQ, ____________________ is the word represented by Q.

Based on the IQ formula developed by Lewis Terman, an individual with the same mental age and chronological age would have:

If you wanted to measure someone's current competence in a particular subject area, you should administer an aptitude test that measures that content area.

According to L.L.Thurstone, intelligence should be conceptualized as seven primary mental abilities, which include verbal comprehension, verbal fluency, ____________________, spatial ability, memory, perceptual speed, and reasoning.

The statistical procedure that groups together related items on tests by analyzing correlations among the test scores is ____________________.

A major contribution of Charles Spearman was the development of the mathematical technique:

The term intellectual disability is generally assigned to a person whose score on a standard IQ test is:

Somewhere between the ages of 4 and 7, it is possible to obtain reliable assessments of IQ, and from that point onward, IQ scores tend to predict performance on later IQ tests reasonably well.

Although positive correlations have been found between creativity and some measures of verbal intelligence, the correlations are generally low.

With respect to testing, a synonym for ____________________ would be consistency.

The view that any complete conceptualization of intelligence must address behavior that occurs outside laboratory settings is most consistent with the:

Which cause of intellectual disabilities is a metabolic disorder involving a defective enzyme?

L.L.Thurstone suggested that intelligence should be conceptualized as having multiple types of intelligence that are independent of each other.How many types did he propose?

The average IQ of this year's graduating class at Bradbury High is 112 points.The average IQ of the graduating class from 25 years ago was 107 points, and the average IQ of the graduating class from 50 years ago was 101 points.This trend is consistent with:

An intelligence test score that is derived by determining where a person's performance sits in an age-based distribution of test scores is a(n): ____________________ IQ.

Which of the following is NOT one of the types of intelligences proposed in Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence?