Exam 10: Intelligence-Part A

Which measure of intelligence is the LEAST valid?

Who developed the two-factor theory of intelligence?

Boris performs at an above-average level on a task that requires him to rotate a three-dimensional object in his mind and describe what it looks like from different angles.Thurstone would predict that Boris:

By the age of 3,children with high socioeconomic status on average know _____% more words than do children with low socioeconomic status.

Alfred Binet believed that,over the lifetime,intelligence:

People are tested on the following: staying balanced on a unicycle,understanding Shakespeare,juggling balls,solving algebraic problems,writing an essay on a controversial topic,counting backward by 7 out loud,comprehending vocabulary,balancing a checkbook,and completing an obstacle course.MOST likely,the patterns of correlation among these tests would yield _____ middle-level abilities.

Adderall and Ritalin are both:

Robert Sternberg argued that standardized intelligence tests primarily measure _____ intelligence.

Research has demonstrated that,when children were asked to report their race before taking a math test,poorer performance was obtained for _____ children.

_____ termed abilities specific to a test as _____.

To find out if intelligence was a single general ability,Charles Spearman measured how well school-age children could discriminate small differences in color,auditory pitch,and weight;subsequently,he correlated these scores with the children's:

Westerners regard people as intelligent when they speak _____;Africans regard people as intelligent when they speak _____.

Which domain of intelligence tends to decrease the LEAST with age?

John Carroll analyzed intelligence test scores from nearly 500 studies and defined _____ independent middle-level abilities.

_____ intelligence is the ability to see abstract relationships and draw logical inferences.

Adderall is the brand name for:

Asian and African cultures are more likely than are Western cultures to include _____ in their conceptualization of intelligence.

_____ believed that intelligence is a single general ability,whereas _____ believed that people do not have a single general ability called intelligence,but instead have several primary mental abilities.

The correlation between intelligence and educational level is _____ because _____.

Sending children to preschool raises their IQ by about _____ points.