Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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_____ would be correlated to obtain a reliability coefficient.
a. | Test scores and criterion scores | b. | Scores from testing the same individuals twice
with the same test | c. | Scores on aptitude tests and scores on
achievement tests | d. | Any of the
above. |
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You could assess the reliability of a person's intelligence test score
by
a. | correlating the score with elementary-school grades, then correlating the test score
with high-school grades and comparing the two correlations. | b. | correlating the
verbal scale score with the performance scale score. | c. | correlating scores from two separate
administrations. | d. | b and c are both correct. |
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You have just found an well constructed, objectively scored. Each item on the
test correlates highly with the test taker's final score. This test would have
a. | test-retest reliability. | c. | alternate form
reliability. | b. | temporal stability. | d. | internal consistency. |
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A criterion measure is used in assessing a test's
a. | validity. | c. | consistency. | b. | reliability. | d. | factor
structure. |
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The first attempts to measure intellectual abilities were made by
a. | Francis Galton. | c. | Alfred Binet. | b. | Charles Darwin. | d. | Lewis Terman. |
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The purpose of Binet's original intelligence test was to
a. | identify the components of intellectual processing. | b. | investigate racial
differences in intelligence. | c. | identify children who would not benefit from
regular schooling. | d. | determine how the intellectual abilities of
children differ from those of adults. |
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Spearman proposed that all individuals possess a _____ called
"g".
a. | global abilities | c. | generative capacities | b. | general
intelligence | d. | genetic
intelligence |
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The information processing approach to intelligence has developed out of the
_____ perspective of psychology.
a. | psychoanalytic | c. | cognitive | b. | learning theory | d. | biological |
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According to Gardner's theory, intelligence is a _____ appropriate to
specified kinds of content.
a. | factorial elements | c. | information-processing abilities | b. | comparative
processing skills | d. | ability
clustering forms of thinking |
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Personal, bodily-kinesthetic, and musical are intelligences of concern to
a. | Sternberg. | c. | information-processing theorists. | b. | Gardner. | d. | Binet. |
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What role does the basic processing mechanism play in Anderson's
theory?
a. | It one of the forms of specific abilities that determine
intelligence. | b. | It is one of the subtypes of intelligence. | c. | It implements
thinking. | d. | It is another name for propositional thought. |
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Robert Sternberg's theory of intelligence addresses basic
information-processing mechanisms as well as
a. | modules and thinking processes. | c. | thought and specific
processes. | b. | linguistic abilities and spatial capacities. | d. | experience and
context. |
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In Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of intelligence, the solution of an analogy
item involves
a. | encoding processes and comparison processes. | b. | experience and
abstract reasoning. | c. | general processes and specific
processes. | d. | verbal abilities and performance abilities. |
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Criticisms with Sternberg's model of intelligence include
a. | it doesn't show how problems are solved in every day
contexts. | b. | it is not coherent. | c. | it largely ignores biological
aspects. | d. | All of the above. |
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Stephen Ceci has suggested that intelligence consists of _____ that are _____
based and linked to the context.
a. | multiple abilities; biologically | c. | modules;
developmentally | b. | multiple intelligences; learning | d. | processors;
cognitively |
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The heritability of intelligence has been estimated to be about
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The correlations between the IQs of identical twins who have been separated
early in life and raised by different families are _____ the correlations between IQs of identical
twins raised in the same family.
a. | very similar to | c. | much smaller than | b. | larger than | d. | very similar to |
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What does heritability tell us about the effects of environmental change on the
average level of a trait?
a. | it predicts the average level of the trait | b. | little or nothing
about the average level of the trait | c. | it is a conservative estimate of the average
level of the trait | d. | it is an accurate estimate of the average level
of the trait |
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Which of these is not one of the 4 underlying abilities in Sternberg's
approach to intelligence?
a. | the ability to learn and profit from experience | b. | the ability to
manipulate numbers and solve problems accurately | c. | the ability to think and reason
abstractly | d. | the ability to motivate oneself to accomplish necessary
tasks |
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Which theorist holds that every day intellectual performance depends upon an
interaction between multiple cognitive potentials with a well-organized knowledge base?
a. | Gardner | c. | Anderson | b. | Ceci | d. | Sternberg |
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