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You have designed a new intelligence test and want to make sure that it is a good test. So, you have a group of students take the test and then have a number of their professors rate them as high or low in intelligence. You want to see if the scores are similar. You are testing for


A) internal consistency
B) content validity
C) construct validity
D) criterion-related validity
E) test-retest reliability

F) A) and B)
G) None of the above

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The Flynn effect demonstrates the influence of what on intelligence?


A) Environmental factors
B) Genetic factors
C) g factor
D) Metacomponents

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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A new species of intelligent being has been discovered on planet NX 1. You do not know a lot about their physiology, but you have learned that the females have about 10 times the amount of grey matter in their brains compared to the females. The males have about 10 times as much white matter as compared to the males. Based on what you know about human brains, what would you predict about these new beings?


A) The males should be superior in information processing capacity.
B) The females should be superior in information processing capacity.
C) The males show a higher degree of connectivity.
D) The females will be better in mental rotation.
E) There should be no difference between the males and females.

F) C) and E)
G) A) and B)

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How is intelligence assessed in non-Western cultures?

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Charles Spearman noted that performances on different measures of intelligence are highly correlated with each other. He therefore proposed that ___________.


A) factor analysis is an inappropriate psychometric technique
B) intelligence cannot be measured by statistical techniques
C) intelligence is made up of multiple, distinct factors
D) intelligence is mostly determined by a single factor, which he called the g factor

E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

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According to Sternberg's Triarchic theory of intelligence, if you were poor in the metacomponent portion you would have difficulty


A) planning and regulating task processes
B) retrieving memories
C) storing information in memory
D) decoding emotions
E) with perceptual processing

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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Differentiate between crystallized and fluid intelligence and indicate how their utilization is related to age.

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Who among the following was commissioned by France's Ministry of Public Education to develop the test that was to become the forerunner of all modern intelligence tests?


A) Binet
B) Galton
C) Terman
D) Wechsler

E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

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All of the following were mentioned as different types of reliability measurements EXCEPT


A) test-retest reliability
B) internal consistency
C) interjudge reliability
D) construct consistency

E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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Kimura found that homosexual men are less accurate than heterosexual men on a throw-to-target task even after sports history and hand strength were controlled.

A) True
B) False

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In order to examine your new intelligence test consisting of 10 different subscales, you conduct a factor analysis. The analysis yields one factor. Your results are most consistent with


A) Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
B) Spearman's "g" factor theory of intelligence
C) Sternberg's Triarchic theory of intelligence
D) Thurstone's theory of Primary Mental Abilities
E) Guilford's theory of Measurable Intelligence

F) C) and D)
G) A) and C)

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According to the text, the argument that intelligence consists of a single general ability factor was first advanced by


A) Alfred Binet
B) Raymond Cattell
C) L.L.Thurstone
D) Charles Spearman

E) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

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The concept of mental age is not really used in modern tests of intelligence. Why is this the case?


A) Mental age cannot be measured accurately.
B) Mental age is appropriate for children but is not really applicable to adults.
C) Mental age does not reliably show up in factor analysis.
D) While the WAIS uses mental age, the WISC does not.
E) Mental age cannot be normally distributed.

F) C) and E)
G) A) and B)

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All of the following are components in Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence EXCEPT


A) metacomponents
B) performance components
C) visual-spatial components
D) knowledge-acquisition components

E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

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The examiner gives the respondent guided feedback on how to improve performance on completion of the standard test and observes how the person utilizes the information in ___________ testing.


A) static
B) creative
C) dynamic
D) practical

E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

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Even though they are good predictors of performance in similar situations, one of the arguments against __________ tests is that this type of testing makes the assumption that everyone has had the same chance to learn the material being tested.


A) aptitude
B) internally consistent
C) achievement
D) psychological

E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

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A student recently scored very high on a test of verbal ability. According to Spearman's g factor ___________.


A) The student is also likely to score high on other tests of intelligence
B) The student is likely to score low on the tests of creativity
C) we cannot determine how The student will score on other tests of intelligence
D) The student is likely to score low on the tests of mathematical ability

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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A cost benefit analysis of the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program showed that every dollar invested in the early intervention program provided taxpayers with a ______.


A) loss of $1.50
B) loss of $2.50
C) return of $3.00
D) return of $7.16

E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

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What does the term standardization refer to?


A) developing norms
B) controlling testing procedures
C) both developing norms and controlling testing procedures
D) testing in dynamic conditions
E) both developing norms and testing in dynamic conditions

F) None of the above
G) A) and D)

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The approach to the study of intelligence that attempts to map the structure of the intellect and to discover the kinds of mental competence that underlies test performance is called the __________ approach, whereas the ___________ approach studies the specific thought processes that underlie those mental competencies.


A) verbal; nonverbal
B) nonverbal; verbal
C) cognitive process; psychometric
D) psychometric; cognitive process

E) B) and D)
F) C) and D)

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