A.P. Psych Unit 11 – Flashcards
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Experts would most likely agree that intelligence is
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a mental ability to learn from experience.
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Psychologists use ________ to assess individuals' mental aptitudes and compare them with those of others.
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intelligence tests
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Factor analysis has been used to assess whether
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intelligence is a single trait or a collection of distinct abilities.
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Spearman's g factor refers to
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a general intelligence that underlies successful performance on a wide variety of tasks.
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Howard Gardner identified a total of ________ intelligences.
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eight
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Robert Sternberg distinguished among analytical, practical, and ________ intelligence.
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creative
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When Mrs. McGuire asks her students to answer questions in class, she can quickly tell from their facial expressions whether they are happy to participate. Mrs. McGuire's perceptual skill best illustrates
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emotional intelligence.
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Brain size (adjusted for body size) is ________ correlated with intelligence. The speed of taking in perceptual information is ________ correlated with intelligence.
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positively; positively
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Binet and Simon designed a test of intellectual abilities in order to
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identify children likely to have difficulty learning in regular school classes.
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To determine whether a child's intellectual development was fast or slow, Binet and Simon assessed the child's
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mental age.
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Lewis Terman's widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test was the
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Stanford-Binet.
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The Stanford-Binet, WAIS, and WISC tests are all types of
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general intelligence tests.
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Tests designed to assess what a person has learned are called ________ tests.
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achievement
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Tests designed to predict ability to learn new skills are called
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aptitude tests.
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When a person's test performance can be compared with that of a representative and pretested sample of people, the test is said to be
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standardized.
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A bell-shaped curve that characterizes a large sample of intelligence test scores is a graphic representation of a
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normal distribution.
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If a test yields consistent results every time it is used, it has a high degree of
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reliability.
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A test has a high degree of validity if it
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measures or predicts what it is supposed to measure or predict.
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Crystallized intelligence refers most directly to a person's
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accumulated knowledge and verbal skills.
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Explaining why the best work of scientists is often produced in early adulthood while that of novelists often originates during middle adulthood requires a distinction between
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fluid and crystallized intelligence.
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The ability to learn a new computer software program is to ________ as knowledge of state capitals is to ________.
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fluid intelligence; crystallized intelligence
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A condition involving intellectual disability caused by an extra chromosome in one's genetic makeup is known as
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Down syndrome.
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Terman observed that children with IQ scores over 135 are likely to
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be academically successful.
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Research on the determinants of intelligence indicates that
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both genes and environment have some influence on intelligence scores.
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The heritability of intelligence refers to
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the percentage of variation in intelligence within a group that is attributable to genetic factors.
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Children in an Iranian orphanage suffered delayed intellectual development due to
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a deprived environment.
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Boys are most likely to outperform girls in a(n)
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chess tournament.
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Girls are most likely to outperform boys in a
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spelling bee.
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The intelligence test scores of today's better-fed population ________ the scores of the 1930s population.
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are higher than
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Intelligence tests are "biased" if
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test performance is influenced by cultural experiences.
