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What is the purpose of routing tests?


A) They measure an individual's visuospatial skills.
B) They prevent administration of items that are too easy.
C) They help establish interrelations among components of intelligence.
D) They improve reliability and validity.

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Which of the following problems of test construction did Binet adequately address in his 1905 scale?


A) identification of what should be measured
B) standardizing using a large,representative sample
C) elimination of cultural bias
D) development of quantitative analytic methods

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Binet's two major principles of test construction were


A) general mental ability and age differentiation.
B) reliability and validity.
C) norms and standardization.
D) age differentiation and age scale.

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A persistent criticism of the 1908 Binet-Simon scale was the


A) lack of a control group.
B) emphasis on language and verbal abilities.
C) lack of an age scale.
D) use of outmoded terms.

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The 1916 Stanford-Binet was developed under the direction of


A) T.Simon.
B) F.Kuhlman.
C) R.M.Yerkes.
D) L.M.Terman.

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The first version of the Stanford-Binet to include non-whites in the standardization sample was the


A) 1937 scale.
B) 1960 scale.
C) 1972 scale.
D) 1986 scale.

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Which of the following needs was the impetus for the development of intelligence testing?


A) classification of military recruits
B) identification of high quality civil service recruits
C) identification of individuals with intellectual disabilities
D) creation of vocational and technical colleges

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The 1937 Stanford-Binet scale was more reliable for ____ than for ____ individuals.


A) younger;older
B) older;younger
C) urban;rural
D) rural;urban

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Evidence for the validity of the Fifth Edition of the Binet scale does NOT include ____ validity.


A) predictive
B) criterion
C) content
D) construct

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Which scale used the now offensive and unacceptable terms idiot,imbecile,and moron?


A) the 1905 Binet-Simon Scale
B) the 1908 Binet-Simon Scale
C) the 1911 Binet-Simon Scale
D) the 1916 Stanford-Binet Scale

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The notion of g was advanced by


A) Spearman.
B) Galton.
C) Thurstone.
D) Simon.

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Binet freed himself from the burden of specifying each component of intelligence by introducing the concept of


A) crystallized intelligence.
B) fluid intelligence.
C) mental age.
D) general mental ability.

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What was the most significant psychometric problem of the 1937 Stanford-Binet Scale?


A) differential variability of IQ scores as a function of age
B) narrower age range
C) more problematic scoring standards and instructions
D) poor predictive validity

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Which of the following is NOT a major content area of the 1986 Stanford-Binet?


A) verbal reasoning
B) visual-motor accuracy
C) short-term memory
D) abstract reasoning

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If a 10-year-old child has a mental age of 12,what would her IQ be?


A) 83
B) 100
C) 120
D) 140

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The age scale concept was introduced in


A) the 1905 Binet-Simon Scale.
B) the 1908 Binet-Simon Scale.
C) the 1911 Binet-Simon Scale.
D) the 1916 Stanford-Binet Scale.

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Among the improvements of the 1937 Stanford-Binet Scale was the


A) introduction of the IQ concept.
B) introduction of the deviation IQ concept.
C) inclusion of an alternate equivalent form.
D) elimination of the IQ concept.

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The main improvement in the 1908 Binet-Simon scale was the introduction of


A) the concept of mental age.
B) a control group.
C) a performance scale.
D) the IQ concept.

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Binet believed that human intelligence was expressed through


A) socioeconomic status and level of education.
B) positive self concept and gender.
C) judgment,attention,and reasoning.
D) ethnicity and socioeconomic status.

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Which type of intelligence reflects learning the overlay of experience on original potential?


A) short-term intelligence
B) long-term intelligence
C) crystallized intelligence
D) fluid intelligence

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