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Who would have been most enthusiastic about the value of a single intelligence test score as an index of an individuals mental capacities

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Charles Spearman

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Those who emphasize the importance of the g factor would be most likely to encourage

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quantifying intelligence with a single numerical score

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The characteristics of savant syndrome have been used to support

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Gardner's argument for multiple intelligences

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Of the following, who best illustrates Sternberg's concept of analytical intelligence

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Selma, a fifth grader who solves complicated math problems in record time

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Which of the following persons best illustrates Sternberg's concept of practical intelligence

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Shelley a newspaper reporter who has established a large network of info sources

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The speed with which people retrieve info from memory has been found to be a predictor of their ___ intelligene

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verbal

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5 year old Ben has an IQ of 120 on the original version of teh Stanford_Binet. His mental age is

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6

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The eugenics movement would have been most likely to encourage

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selective breeding of highly intelligent people

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The WAIS consists of separate _____ subtests

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verbal and performance

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Dr. B has administered her new 100 item test of abstract reasoning to a large sample of students. She is presently comparing their scores on teh odd numbered questions with those on the even numbered questions in an effort to

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determine the test's reliability

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Older people's capacity to learn and remember meaningful material does not decline as much as their capacity to learn and remember meaningless material. This best illustrates the value of

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crystallized intelligence

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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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Sasha has a mild intellectual disability. She achieved the equivalent of a fifth grade education and will soon begin vocational training so that she can earn a living. Sahsa's intelligence score is likely between

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50 and 69

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Sorting children into "gifted child" education programs is most likly to be critisized for

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widening the achievment gap between higher and lower ability gropus

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Mr. and Mrs. G can best predict their newborn daughter's future intellectual aptitude by

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obtaining info about their own levels of intelligence

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Intelligence tests are most likly to be considered culturally biased in terms of their

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content validity

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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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Because intelligene is defined according to the attributes that enable sucess in a culture, psychs consdier intelligence to be

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socially constructed

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Factor analysis is stat procedure that can be used to

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identify clusters of closely related test items

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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 abilitites

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Those who score above average on tests of math aptitude are also likely to score above average on tests of verbal aptitude. According to spearman, this best illustrates the importance of

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the g factor

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The pscyh who disagreed with Spearman about the nature of intelligence, identifying seven clusters of primary mental abilities rather than one general intelletigence factor who

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L. L. Thurstone

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Investigators detected a tendency for those who excelled in one of Thurstone's seven primary mental abilities to also demonstrate high levels of competence in other abilities. This provided some evidence of

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general intelligence

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25 year old Alex is mentally handicapped adn can neither read nor write. However after hearing lengthy unfamiliar and complex musical selections just once, she can reproduce them presisely on the piano. It is likely that Alex is someone with

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Savant syndrome

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The characteristics of savant syndrome most directly suggest that intelligence is

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a diverse set of distinct abilities

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Who is most likely to be criticized for extending the definition of intelligecne to an overly broad range of talents

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Howard Gardner

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Those who define intelligence as academic aptitude are most likely to criticize

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Gardner's concept of multiple intelligences

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Robert Sternberg distinguised among analytical, pratical, and ___ intelligence

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creative

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Emotional intelligence is a critical component of

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social intelligence

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When Mrs. M asks her students to answer questions in cass she can quicly tell from their facial expressions whether they are happy to participate. Mrs. M perceptual skills best ilustrates

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emotional intelligence

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One Component of emotional intelligence invovles

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preidcting accurately when feelings are about to change

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The concept of emotional intelligence is most likely to be criticized for

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extending the definition of intelligence to an overly broad range of skills

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The ability to deal effectively with social conflict is not likely to be refelcted in one's performance on the WAIS. This best illustrates that intelligence is

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a collection of distinctly different abilites

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Binet used the term mental age to refer to

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the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of intelligence test performance

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To determine whetehr a child's intellectual development was fast or slow, Binet and Simon assessed teh child's

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mental age

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For teh original version of the Stanford-Binet IQ was defined as

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mental age divided by chronological age and multiplied by 100

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Achievment tests are designed to

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assess learned knowledge or skills

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Aptitude tests are designed to

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predict ability to learn a new skill

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A test of your capacity to learn to be an automobile mechanic would be considered a ___ test

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aptitude

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22 year old Bernie takes a test that measures such diverse abilities as digit span, vocab, and object assemly, Bernie as completed the

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WAIS

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When Brandon was told that he correctly answered 80 % of he items on a math test, he asked how his performance compared with that of the average test taker. Brandon's concern directly related to the issue of

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standardization

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The widespread improvement in intelligence test performance during teh past century is called

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the Flynn Effect

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It would be reasonable to suggest that the Flynn effect is due in part to

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increasinglyly improved childhood health and nutrition

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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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Psychs measure teh correlation between aptitude test scores adn school grades in order to assess the ___ of the aptitude test

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validity

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Crystallized intelligence refers most directly to a persons

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accumulated knowledge and verbal skills

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Older adults outperformed younger adults in their repsones to New York Times crossword puzzles. The superior performance of these older adults best illustrates the value of

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crystallized intelligence

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Research suggests that during early and middle adulthood

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crystallized intelligence increases and fluid intelligence decresaes

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Intelligence scores are most likely to be stable over a one year period for a

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tenth grade student whose intelligence test score is 95

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Terman's observations of 1500 Cali children with IQ scores over 135 contradicted the popular notion that intellectually gifted children are typically

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socially maladjusted

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Gifted Child programs can lead to ___ by impilcitly labeling some students as ungifted and isolating them from an enriched educational enviorment

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self-fulfilling prophecies

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Spearman's g factor refers to

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a general intelligence that underlies successfull performance on a wide variety of tasks

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The ability to control one's impulses and delay immediate pleasures in pursuit of long term goals is most clearly a characteristic of

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emotional intelligence

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Binet and Simon designed a test of intellectual abilites in order to

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identify children likely to have difficulty learning in regular school classes

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Lewis Terman's widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test was teh

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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 predict ability to learn new skills are called

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aptitude tests

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The WAIS was designed for testing ___ intelligence, whereas the WISC was designed for testing ___ intelligence

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adults; childrens

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The test that provides seperate verbal comprehension perceptual organization, working memory, and processing, speed scores, as well as an overall intelligence scores is the

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WAIS

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A bell-shaped curve that characterizes a large sample of intelligence test scores is a graphic rep of a

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normal distribution

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