Exam 11: Intelligence

Destiny is an average African American child raised in an African American environment. Joy is also an average African American child, but she was adopted into a middle-class white home as an infant. Destiny's IQ is probably around __________, whereas Joy's IQ is most likely about __________.

Tests can be used to facilitate some hiring decisions, but errors will always occur. This is because __________.

Heather is a 10-year-old living in an isolated rural community. The local school closed two years ago, and Heather has not been to school since then. A test performed during the last year of the school's operation revealed that Heather's IQ was 107. Which of the following is probably closest to her current IQ?

According to one theory, emotional intelligence comprises __________ components.

In one study, two groups of African Americans were given the same test. Group A was told it was an intelligence test, while Group B was told that the problems on the test were not meant to assess them. The results were that __________.

Hung-Chu is Chinese-American. Her friend Ira is Jewish American. What might you predict regarding their mind-sets?

Jody is completing a test in which she has to name as many state capitals as she can in one minute; Aditi is trying to complete analogies between pairs of abstract diagrams. Jody is taking a test of __________ intelligence; Aditi, a test of __________.

A researcher gives two groups of African Americans the same test. Half the participants were told it was an intelligence test. The remainder were told that the test was not intended to assess them. The participants who were told the test was an intelligence test constitute the __________ group.

A psychology class hears a lecture dispelling the notion that European Americans outperform African Americans on intelligence tests. The students then take an aptitude test. Based on your understanding of stereotype threat, what might you predict with respect to the performance of the European American and African American students on the aptitude test?

Dr. Williams has developed a paper-and-pencil test to assess fear of heights. He gives the test to 50 research participants, whose scores range from 0 (no fear) to 100 (intense fear). He finds that scores on the test have a correlation of only -0.25 with physiological measures of fear. Two months later, participants take the paper-and-pencil test again. The correlation between scores on this second paper-and-pencil test and scores on the first paper-and-pencil test is 0.95. This information suggests that Dr. Williams' test is __________.

An online intelligence test yields a different IQ each time you take it. The test is __________.

A researcher is examining the intelligence test scores of two large samples of American adults: one tested in the early 1970s and one tested this year. He is especially interested in scores on the vocabulary subtest of the Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale and scores on the Raven's Progressive Matrices test. How might the contemporary sample's scores compare to those of the 1970s sample on booth measures?

The extent to which a test measures what it is designed to measure is known as the test's __________.

Among which of the following samples would you expect the highest heritability ratio for IQ?

Degree of African ancestry, as determined by blood tests, is __________.

Your text reports that in the early years of the 20th century, advocates for the disadvantaged argued that good education can lift the IQ scores of the disadvantaged. In light of subsequent research, were the advocates correct?

Sandy has difficulty adjusting her behavior to new goals. Sandy is demonstrating __________, a problem reflecting damage to the __________ lobe.

Scores on measures of practical intelligence are only weakly related to __________.

Two groups of participants are given a math test in which they are told that it takes two pounds of meat to feed one man dinner. They are asked how many pounds they will need to feed seven men. Participants in the first group all try to answer the question, while participants in the second group begin arguing that two pounds of meat is too much for one man. Chances are that __________.

Which of the following is NOT one of Gardner's multiple intelligences?