Psychology Final Test 13

Front 1

Studies have found a stronger relationship between IQ scores of adopted children and their ________ parents than with their ________ parents when socioeconomic status is equal.

Back 1

biological; adoptive

Front 2

The first widely influential theory of intelligence was proposed in 1904 by:

Back 2

Charles Spearman

Front 3

A common factor in low test scores is a tendency for some students to:

Back 3

rush through a test without analyzing each question

Front 4

There is a correlation of ________ for identical twins who were separated at birth and reared apart.

Back 4

0.72

Front 5

While ________ believed that intelligence could be represented by a single score, ________ felt that it could best be represented through multiple scores of various abilities.

Back 5

Spearman; Thurstone

Front 6

Approximately ________ percent of IQ scores will fall between 70 and 130.

Back 6

95

Front 7

"Intelligence consists of what is measured on intelligence tests." This may be characterized as a/an:

Back 7

operational definition

Front 8

Paul achieved a score of 85 on the WAIS. Approximately ________ percent of all who take WAIS will score higher than Paul.

Back 8

85

Front 9

Sternberg compared the conceptions of intelligence of laypersons with experts and found that:

Back 9

both agreed that verbal and problem-solving ability are attributes of intelligence.

Front 10

Thurstone, Guilford, and Spearman's approaches to intelligence served the purpose of:

Back 10

providing logical models of intelligence

viewing intelligence as being comprised of many independent abilities.

a and c only

Front 11

A major problem with adoption studies is that:

Back 11

it is difficult to determine the degree of difference between the adoptive home environment and the biological parents' environment

Front 12

Gardner would argue that dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov demonstrates superior ________ intelligence.

Back 12

Bodily kinesthetic

Front 13

The major problem with most attempts to define intelligence is that:

Back 13

the descriptions are ambiguous.

they lack operational definitions.

the concepts cannot be precisely measured.

*all of the above

Front 14

Louis Thurstone suggested that there are ________ primary abilities.

Back 14

seven

Front 15

________ advocates that the concept of intelligence be broadened to include a number of mental abilities that fall outside the realm of what have been labeled traditionally as intelligence.

Back 15

Gardner

Front 16

The three major intellectual functions identified by Guilford include:

Back 16

mental operations, task content, and task product

Front 17

Sternberg found that laypersons' and experts' views of intelligence:

Back 17

were very similar

Front 18

Arthur Jensen found evidence that as rural disadvantaged black children between the ages of five and sixteen grew older, they exhibited:

Back 18

a substantial decline in IQ points

Front 19

A method of assessing test reliability which involves administering two or more forms of the same test is ________ reliability.

Back 19

alternate-form

Front 20

Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are highly intelligent and so are their two children. Their family supports the view that ________ determines intelligence

Back 20

neither environment nor genetics alone