MCQs of Psychology – Intelligence

Which of the following does not belong with the others?

If you score at the 75th percentile on a standardize test, it means that:

If a test has good test-retest reliability:

In which of the following countries are IQ tests LEAST likely to be used?

Professor Ehsan gave his class a twenty-question test covering two weeks of class material. Fifteen questions were on the structures of the brain, although he only spent ten minutes talking about the brain. Professor Ehsan’s test did not appear to have adequate_______validity.

With increasing age, adopted children’s intelligence test scores become________like their adoptive parents’scores and_______similar to their biological parent’s scores.

Dr. Ahmad administerd his new intelligence test to a group of subjects and then compared each subject’s score on the old-numbered questions. He found a large positive correlation between the odd and even scores, indicating the test has:

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

What do intelligence tests actually measure?

Which of the following is a true statement regarding Francis Galton?

On the most modern IQ tests, a score of 115 would be:

IQ tests have proven to be good predictors of:

When there is a large discrepancy between achievement and IQ scores there may be:

The knowledge a person has already required and the ability to access that knowledge is known as

In solving math comutation problems, women perform_______than men. In solving math reasoning problems, women perform______than men.

The vast majority of retarded people are classified as

Sternberg’s Triarchic theory of intelligence includes all of the following EXCEPT:

Which of the following is NOT a component of Gardener’s emotional intelligence? The ability to

Having 47 chromosomes in each cell instead of 46 is a characteristic of:

Which of the following is part of Wechseler’s definition of intelligence?

Mr. Mrs. Pervaiz Parent are beaming because their son, little Nasir, has been selected for a gifted children program at school. They think Nasir is a genius. What sort of advice do they need to hear?

Which of the following is a true statement about mental retardation?

Most school districts consider children who__________to be gifted.

In which of the following cases would you expect to find the greatest similarity in IQ?

Evidence indicating that urbringing affects one’s mental ability is provided by which of the following findings?

Which of the following is a likely consequences of stereotype vulner ability for members of minority groups?

The triarchic theory of intelligence, which emphasizes a cognitive perspective, was developed by:

When you try to narrow down a list of alternatives to arrive at a single correct answer, you engage in:

Nail has a blind date with Naeem who, she’s been is considered a true genius by the faculty in the art department. Now she’s having second thoughts, because she’s always heard that geniuses are a little of their rocker. Does have reason to be concerned?

All of the following refer reliability EXCEPT______reliability.

In testing consistency is to______as truth is to_______.

Alfred Binet developed his intelligence test to

The components of creativity include:

Researchers are in the process of developing a new college entrance exam. They want to ensure that wherever the test is given, it will be administered scored, and interpreted in the same manner. In other words, the researchers are concerned with

In order for norms to be meaningful what must also occur?

The definition of intelligence includes all of the following EXCEPT:

The formula of IQ is:

All of the following are IQ tests EXCEPT:

In Binet’s test of intelligence , items included at each age level were those which.

Which of the following is an approach to measuring reliability?

Which of the following statements concerning the relationship between inspection time and IQ is true?

Terman showed that mentally gifted children.

Which of the following is one of Gardner’s types of intelligence?

Who would be the most norm group for the ACT or SAT college-entrance tests?

_______is the capacity for learning certain and specific abilities.

Howard Gardner has theorized all of the following type of intelligence EXCEPT:

The form of mental retardation that is caused by the presence of an extra chromosome is

Twenty-two-years-old Babar takes a test that includes measures of his ability in terms of digit span, vocabulary, and object assembly. Babar has completed the:

Roshan, a 10th grader, took a test that measured his potential for college success. Jill, another 10th grader, took a test on the math chapter that had just been covered in class, Roshan most likely took an______test and Jill most likely took an______test.

Yasmin is a 23-year-old female who only completed the third grade. She is employed in a sheltered workshop and has a difficult time with mild stress. Yasmin is MOST likely:

Mental retardation caused by birth injuries or fetal damage is called_______retardation.

Selective breeding for desirable characteristics is called

Research on mental retardation indicates that:

Research indicates that Head Start programs:

The WAIS was designed for testing_________intelligence, whereas the WISC was designed for testing_______intelligence.

The WAIS consists of separate________subjects.

In one experiment, college students were either aware or unaware that experts would evaluate their creativity in constructing paper collages. This experiment most directly illustrated that creativity is facilitated by:

It can argued that standardize testing (such as the SAT) is beneficial because

The fact that fraternal twins are more similar in intelligence than ordinary siblings suggests the importance of

A school curriculum built on Howard Gardner’s theory of intelligence would provide

Standardization includes formalizing testing procedures and establishing

Which of the following is a factor that influences success for the gifted?

The person responsible for the development and design of the first useful individual test of intelligence is:

The items actually selected for an intelligence test provide a (n)_______definition of intelligence.

Speed of processing has been measured by which of the following techniques?

The distribution of IQ scores:

When the same procedures are used in giving a test to all people, the test has been:

The term “g-factor,” written about by Neisser, refers to

The best summary statement regarding the role of heredity on human intelligence is that

A psychologist administers an intelligence test to 100 fourth graders. One month later the psychologist returns and re-administers the test. The psychologist is probably interested in

The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations is known as:

Smedley has a theory that intelligence is related to body temperature. He uses an oral thermometer to measure intelligence. His data most likely have:

Everyone would agree that intelligence tests are “blased” in the sense that:

Comparing the average performance of the initial WAIS standardization sample with the average performance of the most recent WAIS standardization sample provides convincing evidence of:

Research on gender and emotional intelligence suggests that women are more skilled the men at:

Sadiq and Tahir had an excellent time-travel adventure back to 1916. In order to come back to present sadiq (who is a little below average in intelligence needs a score of 115 on the stanford-Binet Intelligence Test, Sadiq has to convince Professor Tahir that he is_______than he actually is, because the Stanford-Binet IQ was calculated as________.

Research on intelligence and brain functioning that highly intelligent children demonstrate_______than their less intelligent counterparts.

Sameena is reading about the history of IQ testing. She finds that Binet’s original intelligence test did not:

Terman’s longitudinal study of people with extremely high IQs found that nearly all of them:

The definition of intelligence includes:

Generating the single correct answer to an intelligence test question illustrates:

When interpreting the results from the final exam, Professor Hisham noticed that the students who had test from A scored significantly higher than those who had test from B. Professor Hisham concluded that the final exam was low on:

“Gifted child” programs can lead to_______by implicitly labeling some students as “ungifted” and isolating them from an enriched educational environment.

When professor Munir asks her students to answer questions in class, she can quickly tell from their facial expressions whether they are happy to participate professor Munir’s perceptual skill best illustrates:

Who would have been most enthusiastic about the value of an single intelligence test score as an index of an individual’s mental capacities?

Robert Sternberg distinguished among analytical, creative, and________intelligence.

Ana has a score of 115 on an IQ test that can be compared to the score of hundreds of other people who took the some test. The capability to compare scores statistically is a function of

The eugenics movement would have been most likely to encourage:

Aaamir, age 55, plays basketball with much younger adults and is concerned that his teammates might consider his age to be a detriment to their game outcome. His concern actually undermines his athletic performance. This best illustrates the impact of:

Factor analysis is a statistical procedure that can be used to:

A college administrator is trying to assess whether an admissions test accurately predicts how well applicants will perform at his school. The administrator is most obviously concerned that the test is:

The characteristicss of of savant syndrome have been used to support:

The Maliks note their 6-month-old daughter Bisma seems to be developing more slowly and is not as playful as other infants her age. Research suggests that:

Brain size (adjusted for body size is__________correlated with intelligence, and the speed of taking in perceptual information is_______correlated with intelligence.

Katrina received a 740 on her Math SAT. She decided to take the SAT again and are so similar is because the SAt has high

Twenty-five-year-old Aaliya is mentally handicapped that can neither read nor write. However, after hearing lengthy, unfamilar, and complex musical selections just once, she can reproduce them precisely on the piano. It is likely that Aaliya is:

To regard an abstract concept as if it were a real, concentrate thing is called:

If a test is_____, it will also be______.

The percentage of people diagnosed with mental retardation has_________over the past 80 years because intelligence test have been______.

Serat has developed a new test. He gives the test to 1,000 people. Six weeks later he gives the test to the same 1,000 people. Serat is assessing the______of his test.

Researchers have suggested that IQ is inherited and that about_______percent of the variance in IQ is due to genetic makeup.

If heritability alone is not responsible for IQ what other factor plays a large role?

Research shows that IQ scores are valid predictors of all of the following EXCEPT:

When Asians and Americans asked what accounts for the consistently higher scores in mathematics among Asians, Americans are likely to conclude it is due to

Researchers suggests that the link between creativity and madness is mythical. However, madness can effect a creative person’s

If Jane’s intelligence quotient is 100,we know that she has a

________involve(s) an ability to manage your own thinking and problem solving.

The intelligence test scores of identical twins are

_______intelligence tests assess a wide variety of mental abilities.

Which is the most closely related to poverty?

Which one of the following assertions is true? Galton’s notion of the normal distribution’ tells us:

Galton introduced the idea of correlation (or co-relation) and showed which of the following to be true?

In the early stage of measuring intelligence, which type of intelligence did Spearman identify as the underlying feature the contributes to performance across a variety of different tasks?

Binet was the first psychologist to specify that intelligence tests must be:
1: Administered and scored in careful and standardized manner if comparisons between children’s performance are to be valid and reliable.
2: Presented in the same order to all children and in order of increasing difficulty so that each child can pass as many tests as possible.
3: Difficult, to ensure that only intelligent people pass them.
4: Administered in one-to-one setting and only where the examiner has first established a friendly rapport with the child.

Which is the case? IQ is calculated as:

Which one of the following is most likely to be true? A person with an IQ of 100 is:

Evidence obtained from measures of reaction time. inspection time and psychological changes suggest that general intelligence has a_______basis.

It is generally accepted that there is such a thing as general intelligence. So which of the following statements is true?

All of the following represents intelligence from Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences except for________.

Mental retardation is represented by which of the following characteristics?

Which model assumes that the savant syndrome represents selective brain damage by which some modules were spread whereas others were not?

IQ test scores represent________measures of intelligence.

By measuring the extent to which identical twins reared together score differently on intelligence tests researchers can determine the influence of which factors on intelligence?

Flynn has shown that there has been a standard deviation increase, per generation, in the mean level of intelligence test performance for most of this country in Western society, which equates to about three IQ points per decade. He believes that such a difference has to be result of which one of the following?

Detterman believes that:

Anderson argues three of the following-but which ONE is NOT in line with his arguments?

The measured difference in IQ between African Americans and white Americans is most likely to be due to which one of the following factors?

What explanations have been given to challenge inaccurate, calm that differences in IQ scores between black and white Americans are due to genetic differences in intelligence?

Estimates of heritability for intelligence range between_________.

Which are the most widely used individual tests of intelligence?