Question 1

Which of the following is one of Gardner's categories of intelligence?

Accepted Answer

A)  evaluative skills 
B)  practical intelligence 
C)  musical abilities 
D)  creativity

Question 2

According to the neural view of intelligence,those individuals who have the fastest reaction time to stimuli

Accepted Answer

A)  had higher measured IQ. 
B)  had lower measured IQ. 
C)  did not show higher or lower measured IQ than the people with slower reaction times. 
D)  had a more sensitive sympathetic nervous system, which indicated the possiblity of autism.

Question 3

The main technique for estimating how much heredity and environment affect intelligence involves the use of

Accepted Answer

A)  high-stakes testing. 
B)  twin studies. 
C)  artificial intelligence. 
D)  culture-fair testing.

Question 4

Regarding phenylketonuria (PKU),which of the following statements is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A)  PKU can be detected in newborn babies by routine medical testing. 
B)  If PKU goes untreated, severe intellectual disability typically occurs by age three. 
C)  Affected children are usually placed on a diet high in phenylalinine. 
D)  Phenylalinine is present in many foods, including the artificial sweetner in diet colas called Aspartame.

Question 5

Compared with children in developing countries,a child who grows up in the U.S.may be better prepared to take both nonverbal tests and traditional IQ tests because our culture is very

Accepted Answer

A)  auditory. 
B)  tactile. 
C)  visual. 
D)  kinesthetic.

Question 6

Studies on early childhood prorams for disadvantaged children have demonstrated that

Accepted Answer

A)  the children in these programs had IQ gains that were maintained for seven years. 
B)  the children in these programs had initial IQ gains, which were lost after five years. 
C)  the children in these programs showed no IQ gains as compared to the control group. 
D)  these programs could not prevent the children from falling behind in school.

Question 7

An organic intellectual disability may result from any of the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)  fetal damage due to the use of drugs by the pregnant mother. 
B)  an impoverished environment in infancy and early childhood. 
C)  birth injuries, such as a lack of oxygen during delivery. 
D)  genetic abnormalities, such as defective or missing genes.

Question 8

Ray Friedman and his colleagues administered a 20-item test to African-American and European-American students before and during the presidential election of Barack Obama.Before the election,the African-American students performed more poorly than the European-American students.During the election period,the African-American students

Accepted Answer

A)  showed no change from their earlier performance. 
B)  showed a further decrese in their scores. 
C)  performed just as well as the European-American students. 
D)  significantly outperformed the European-American students.

Question 9

According to David Perkins,reflective intelligence involves

Accepted Answer

A)  the speed and efficiency of the nervous system. 
B)  specialized knowledge and skills acquired over time. 
C)  an ability to become aware of one's own thinking habits. 
D)  an ability to understand others and social interactions.

Question 10

Jonathan has an intellectual disability.He is unable to read books or to read music and has had no music lessons.However,he is able to play any song on the piano if he hears it once on the radio.Jonathan would best be described as having

Accepted Answer

A)  a schizotypal personality. 
B)  savant syndrome. 
C)  Turner's syndrome. 
D)  pseudo-giftedness.

Question 11

Treatment for phenylketonuria (PKU)would involve

Accepted Answer

A)  the child being placed on a special diet low in the substance the child's body can't handle. 
B)  surgical implantation of a tube to drain fluid from the brain into the abdomen to minimize brain damage. 
C)  a thyroid hormone replacement 
D)  the addition of increased amounts of iodine in the child's diet.

Question 12

Which of the following skills would be most difficult for an artificial intelligence system to do?

Accepted Answer

A)  reading normal text 
B)  diagnosing medical conditions 
C)  masquerading as a "human" during instant message exchanges 
D)  determining when to buy and sell stocks

Question 13

People with IQs below 20 and adaptive behaviors within the same functioning range with the need for pervasive support throughout their life would be described as having which degree of intellectual disabilitiy?

Accepted Answer

A)  moderate 
B)  trainable 
C)  severe 
D)  profound

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

A)  The IQs of some separated twins differ by as much as 20 points when the twins grow up with big educational and environmental differences. 
B)  Being placed in homes socially and educationally similar to their biological parents tends to inflate apparent genetic effects by making separated twins' IQs more alike. 
C)  The IQ of identical twins reared apart is inflated by the fact that identical twins develop in the same prenatal environment. 
D)  Psychologists who emphasize genetics believe that the correlations between identical twins show that adult intelligence is roughly 80 percent hereditary.

Question 15

Howard Gardner's theory that there are several specialized mental "languages" that people use for thinking is known as the

Accepted Answer

A)  theory of multiple intelligences. 
B)  two-factor (g and s factors) theory of intelligence. 
C)  triarchic theory of intelligence. 
D)  structure of intelligence model.

Question 16

Usually loving and responsive,Mae,who has a moderate intellectual disability,can do most of the things that other children can,only slower.She has almond-shaped eyes,a slightly protruding tongue,a stocky build,and stubby hands with deeply creased palms.Mae most likely has which condition?

Accepted Answer

A)  cretinism 
B)  phenylketonuria (PKU) 
C)  Down syndrome 
D)  Fragile-X syndrome

Question 17

Which of the following is considered a "culture-fair" intelligence test?

Accepted Answer

A)  Stanford-Binet 
B)  Wechsler Scales 
C)  Dove Counterbalance 
D)  none of these

Question 18

Computer simulations and expert systems provide good examples of which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  proxemics 
B)  artificial intelligence 
C)  executive processing 
D)  automatic processing

Question 19

While one group of children with an intellectual disability was moved from an orphanage to a more stimulating environment,a second group of children who were less intellectually disabled stayed at the orphanage.This second group of children showed

Accepted Answer

A)  no change in IQ scores. 
B)  an average increase of 29 points. 
C)  an average decrease of 26 points. 
D)  a slight IQ increase, which faded after being adopted.

Question 20

According to David Perkins,the specialized knowledge which is acquired over time is called __________ intelligence.

Accepted Answer

A)  neural 
B)  experiential 
C)  reflective 
D)  interpersonal

Exam 9: B: Intelligence