Chapter 7 COGNITION PRACTICE 234-239 INTELLIGENCE Name Period Date MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) A general term referring to the ability or abilities involved in learning and adaptive behavior is. A) apperception B) insight C) affect D) intelligence 1) 2) According to Sternberg, the ability to focus on one's strengths, compensate for weaknesses, and seek out environments in which one can function most effectively reflect intelligence. A) exponential B) creative C) practical D) analytical 2) 3) According to Sternberg, the ability to learn how to do things or to acquire new knowledge and carry out tasks effectively requires intelligence. A) exponential B) practical C) creative D) analytical 3) 4) Barbara does not do very well on IQ tests or in school. Yet she picks up new skills quite quickly and carries out her assigned tasks effectively and efficiently. Her intellectual strengths appear to be. A) practical B) exponential C) analytical D) creative 4) 5) Barbara always seems to excel at whatever she does. While she was only an average student and did poorly on most aptitude and IQ tests, she has an ability to find jobs and challenges that allow her to use her strengths and avoid her weaknesses. When necessary, she excels at finding ways of shaping her job duties to better fit her abilities. Her intellectual strengths appear to be. A) creative B) analytical C) practical D) exponential 5) 6) The theorist who most emphasized the importance of practical intelligence in enabling people to get along successfully in the world was. A) Gardner B) Spearman C) Sternberg D) Goleman 6) 7) Gardner and his associates are known for proposing the. A) generalized theory of intelligence B) theory of emotional intelligence C) theory of multiple intelligences D) triarchic theory of intelligence 7) 8) In its emphasis on intelligence being comprised of many separate abilities, Gardner's theory of intelligence most closely matches theory of intelligence. A) Thurstone's B) Simon's C) Goleman's D) Spearman's 8) 9) According to Gardner, intelligence is the ability to manipulate one's body in space. A) naturalistic B) spatial C) bodily-kinesthetic D) intrapersonal 9) 12/09/2011 1
10) According to Gardner, people who understand themselves and who use this knowledge effectively to attain their goals would rank high in. A) naturalistic B) interpersonal C) intrapersonal D) linguistic 10) 11) The psychologist known for his work on emotional intelligence is. A) Thurstone B) Goleman C) Wechsler D) Spearman 11) 12) Charles Spearman believed that. A) people who are intelligent in one area are usually intelligent in other areas, too B) people who are intelligent in math are often not intelligent in verbal skills C) people exhibit specific and varied degrees of intelligence in different areas D) intelligence and creativity seldom go together 12) 13) A researcher argues that intelligence is quite general- a kind of well, or spring, of mental energy that flows through every action. This researcher's views are most similar to those of. A) Cattell B) Thurstone C) Sternberg D) Spearman 13) 14) Thurstone's definition of intelligence includes. A) operations, contents, and products B) fluid general ability C) seven distinct mental abilities D) s factors 14) 15) Roberta is interested in both art and business, but after 2 years of college she realizes she must make a choice. She visits a vocational counselor and is given a psychological test. She scores markedly higher in the reasoning ability and verbal meaning sections than on the spatial ability section. The counselor suggests that Roberta go into business rather than art. This type of test is based on the views of. A) Thurstone B) Tryon C) Goleman D) Guilford 15) 16) proposed a triarchic theory of intelligence. A) Sternberg B) Spearman C) Goleman D) Gardner 16) 17) Terman introduced the concept of. A) content validity B) IQ C) basal age D) mental age 17) 18) Terman established the IQ score of for a person of average intelligence. A) 200 B) 150 C) 100 D) 50 18) 19) The current version of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale measures kinds of mental abilities. A) 7 B) 2 C) 15 D) 4 19) 20) Which of the following intelligence tests was designed primarily for use with adults? A) the Binet-Simon B) the WAIS-III C) the Stanford-Binet D) the WISC-III 20) 2
21) The first intelligence test was designed by. A) Binet and Terman B) Stanford and Terman C) Stanford and Binet D) Binet and Simon 21) 22) The first intelligence test was used in Paris in. A) 1825 B) 1945 C) 1865 D) 1905 22) 23) Alfred Binet designed the first test. A) performance-based B) perception C) intelligence D) aptitude 23) 24) A major difference between the Stanford-Binet test and the WAIS is that the. A) Stanford-Binet test measures a wider range of abilities B) Stanford-Binet test emphasizes verbal abilities more than the WAIS C) Stanford-Binet test is made especially for adults D) WAIS measures only verbal ability 24) 25) John is applying for a job as an investment counselor with a large firm. In addition to testing his knowledge of investment and finance, the investment firm attempts to test his intelligence. They are MOST likely to administer the. A) WISC-III B) Binet-Simon C) Stanford-Binet D) WAIS-III 25) 26) Which of the following exemplifies a proper mode of administration or use of an intelligence test? A) Group administration of the Porteus Maze to 2-year-old children. B) Group administration of the WAIS-III to measure the specific abilities of immigrant students. C) Individualized administration of the Stanford-Binet to an elementary school child. D) Group administration of the WAIS-III to adult job applicants. 26) 27) Kerstin is 8 years old and has just immigrated to America from Sweden. She is placed in a third-grade class, but she does not do well. Her teacher sends her to the school psychologist for intelligence testing. Noting that Kerstin does not speak English very well, the psychologist chooses a culture-fair test and administers the. A) WAIS-III B) Stanford-Binet C) Goodenough-Harris D) Seguin Form Board 27) 28) Which of the following is NOT one of the types of mental abilities measured by the current version of the Stanford-Binet test? A) long-term memory B) verbal reasoning C) abstract/visual reasoning D) quantitative reasoning 28) 29) The Seguin Form Board is essentially. A) for minorities B) a puzzle C) a group test D) verbal dependent 29) 3
30) Performance tests and culture-fair tests are similar in that they. A) focus only on mathematical and abstraction skills B) focus on linguistic abilities C) minimize or eliminate the use of words D) are exclusively group tests 30) 31) A school psychologist has written a test to predict success in algebra. She administers the test on Monday to ten students. Wednesday she administers the same test again to the same ten students. She is attempting to. A) get an estimate of criterion-related validity B) measure environmental effects on student test performance C) get an estimate of content validity D) establish the test's reliability 31) 32) An investigator who correlates the scores on the odd-numbered items of a test with the scores on the even-numbered items of the same test is establishing. A) test-retest reliability B) split-half reliability C) content validity D) criterion-related validity 32) 33) Which term does not belong with the others? A) split-half B) test-retest C) validity D) reliability 33) 34) The methods of test-retest and split-half are used to measure. A) test norms B) reliability C) construct accuracy D) validity 34) 35) A valid test is one that. A) produces consistent results B) has a correlation coefficient of.50 C) has split-half reliability D) actually measures what it sets out to measure 35) 36) Half the questions on a comprehensive final exam on general psychology focus on psychobiology. This test probably does not have. A) standardization B) criterion-related validity C) reliability D) content validity 36) 37) The type of validity that requires a test to contain an adequate sample of the skills or knowledge to be measured is called validity. A) performance B) criterion-related C) predictive D) content 37) 4
38) The type of validity measured by a comparison of the test score and independent measures of what the test is supposed to measure is validity. A) content B) predictive C) criterion-related D) performance 38) 39) Critics of IQ tests claim that the only thing they really measure is. A) creativity B) verbal skills C) test-taking ability D) educational level 39) 40) When test results are in agreement with some other direct and independent measure of that which the test is designed to predict, the test exhibits. A) alternate-form reliability B) test-retest reliability C) content validity D) criterion-related validity 40) 41) Even the strongest critics of IQ tests admit that they effectively measure. A) creativity B) career achievement C) verbal skills D) academic performance 41) 42) Research indicates that the practice of using IQ scores to label students and track them in separate school programs. A) helps both slow and high-iq students perform more effectively B) may hurt slow students while helping high-iq students perform more effectively C) has little effect on either slow or high-iq students D) helps slow students perform more effectively but has little effect on high-iq students 42) TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false. 43) IQ tests accurately predict school performance. 43) 44) People with high IQ's tend to enter high-status occupations. 44) 45) The content of the WAIS-III is somewhat less sophisticated than that of the Stanford-Binet test. 45) 46) Reliability is a test's ability to measure what it has been designed to to measure. 46) 47) Reliability refers to the dependability and consistency of the scores yielded by a given test. 47) 48) The Stanford-Binet test is simply passed out to a roomful of students. 48) 49) Group tests have some distinct advantages over individual IQ tests. 49) 50) The Seguin Form Board is a group test. 50) 5
Answer Key Testname: CH 7 234-239 PRACTICE 1) D 2) C 3) D 4) C 5) C 6) C 7) C 8) A 9) C 10) C 11) B 12) A 13) D 14) C 15) A 16) A 17) B 18) C 19) D 20) B 21) D 22) D 23) C 24) B 25) D 26) C 27) C 28) A 29) B 30) C 31) D 32) B 33) C 34) B 35) D 36) D 37) D 38) C 39) C 40) D 41) D 42) B 43) TRUE 44) TRUE 45) FALSE 46) TRUE 47) TRUE 48) FALSE 49) TRUE 12/09/2011 6
Answer Key Testname: CH 7 234-239 PRACTICE 50) FALSE 7