Question 1

Which of the following is the best-known culture-fair measure of intelligence?

Accepted Answer

A)   Wechsler Intelligence Scale of Children
B)   Raven's Progressive Matrices
C)   Stanford-Binet IQ Test
D)   Scholastic Assessment TestE) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 2

The tendency to underperform on standardized tests due to perceptions that you come from a group that has fared poorly on such tests and the fear of validating those perceptions is called __________ .

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Question 3

Which of the following increases the likelihood of a child having Down Syndrome?

Accepted Answer

A)   prenatal malnutrition
B)   prenatal stress
C)   having a relative with Down Syndrome
D)   having an older motherE) A) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 4

Which personality trait overlaps considerably with the construct of 'grit'?

Accepted Answer

A)   extraversion
B)   openness to experience
C)   conscientiousness
D)   neuroticismE) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 5

Which of the following is negatively correlated with IQ scores?

Accepted Answer

A)   health-promoting behaviours
B)   crime and delinquency
C)   Income
D)   car accidentsE) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 6

Which of the following items would most likely be found on a culture-fair IQ test?

Accepted Answer

A)   General information items
B)   Picture completion items
C)   Sentence completion items
D)   Vocabulary recognition itemsE) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 7

The personality trait known as __________ consists of two major elements: perseverance and a passion for achieving goals.

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Question 8

Racial differences in IQ scores can be primarily explained by what factor?

Accepted Answer

A)   between-group heritability
B)   within-group heritability
C)   socioeconomic differences
D)   stereotype threatE) B) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 9

Mark is trying to reason through several spatial problems on an intelligence test. According to Spearman, Mark's ability to solve the problems will depend on

Accepted Answer

A)   how fluid or crystallized his intelligence is.
B)   what types of multiple intelligences he has excelled at in the past.
C)   his general problem-solving ability and specific talents with spatial tasks.
D)   his level of analytical intelligence and logical thought.E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 10

The correlation of IQ measured at six months old with adult IQ is about

Accepted Answer

A)   0.00.
B)   0.20.
C)   0.45.
D)   0.70.E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 11

Finding the single best way to complete a video-game level without losing any lives would be related to what type of creative thinking?

Accepted Answer

A)   Divergent thinking
B)   Emotional intelligence
C)   Convergent thinking
D)   Critical thinkingE) B) and D)
F) C) and D)

Question 12

Which one of the following was tentatively proposed by Gardner as a possible ninth type of intelligence?

Accepted Answer

A)   Musical
B)   Interpersonal
C)   Holistic
D)   ExistentialE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 13

Where in the bell curve of IQ scores would you find a score of 150?

Accepted Answer

A)   In the bottom tail (with about 5% of the population) .
B)   Just below the mean (with about 15% of the population) 
C)   Just above the mean (with about 15% of the population) 
D)   In the upper tail (with about 2% of the population) E) B) and D)
F) C) and D)

Question 14

What are the causes of racial differences in IQ? Describe two examples of research that reveals the relative contributions of biological and environmental factors for IQ, and describe how those results explain what cause group differences.

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Question 15

Which of the following statements most accurately represents the relationship between sex differences and IQ?

Accepted Answer

A)   Women score, on average, significantly higher on IQ tests than men.
B)   Men score, on average, significantly higher on IQ tests than women.
C)   There are few, if any, differences in IQ scores between men and women.
D)   Mean scores may be similar between sexes, but men have more variability.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 16

High IQ also may be related to the strength of the __________, which is our defence against evidence that contradicts our views. This helps to explain why smart people can believe strange things.

Accepted Answer

A)   confirmation bias
B)   ideological immune system
C)   overconfidence barrier
D)   disconfirmation biasE) All of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 17

Which of the following was an outcome associated with the eugenics movement?

Accepted Answer

A)   implementing sterilization plans for people with low IQ to prevent them from breeding
B)   delivering increased educational training for people with high IQs
C)   delivering increased educational training for people with low IQs
D)   providing people with low IQ increased access to higher educationE) C) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 18

Shalissa is described as being socially skilled and able to manipulate situations to her advantage. In Sternberg's triarchic model, she would likely score high in

Accepted Answer

A)   analytical intelligence.
B)   creative intelligence.
C)   practical intelligence.
D)   exponential intelligence.E) B) and D)
F) C) and D)

Question 19

From the 15 subsections of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) identify and describe two that are heavily dependent upon culture or education, and two that are more 'culture-fair'.

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Question 20

Culture-fair tests attempt to measure

Accepted Answer

A)   the intelligence of people coming from any culture.
B)   the intelligence of people coming from inside the culture in which the test was devised.
C)   cultural background.
D)   the effects of culture on people's intellectual and creative skills.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Exam 9: Intelligence and Iq Testing

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Which personality trait overlaps considerably with the construct of 'grit'?

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Finding the single best way to complete a video-game level without losing any lives would be related to what type of creative thinking?

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Racial differences in IQ scores can be primarily explained by what factor?

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