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Robert Sternberg distinguished among analytical, creative, and ________ intelligence.


A) spatial
B) musical
C) practical
D) interpersonal

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Experts who defend intelligence tests against accusations of racial bias note that racial differences in intelligence test scores


A) have increased in the past decade despite the introduction of less culturally biased test items.
B) occur on nonverbal as well as verbal intelligence test subscales.
C) are a clear indication that the heritability of intelligence approaches 100 percent.
D) are just as significant as intelligence differences among members of a single race.

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Increasing years of schooling over the last half-century have most likely contributed to


A) stereotype threat.
B) the Flynn effect.
C) the normal curve.
D) savant syndrome.

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J. McVicker Hunt found that institutionalized children given "tutored human enrichment"


A) showed no change in intelligence test performance compared with institutionalized children who did not receive such enrichment.
B) responded so negatively as a result of their impoverished early experiences that he felt it necessary to disband the program.
C) thrived intellectually and socially on the benefits of positive caregiving.
D) actually developed greater intelligence than control subjects who had lived in

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Lewis Terman's widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test was the


A) WISC.
B) WAIS.
C) Stanford-Binet.
D) SAT.

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On which of the following tasks are men most likely to outperform women?


A) speed reading
B) interpreting literature
C) learning a foreign language
D) mentally rotating three-dimensional objects

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Current intelligence tests compute an individual's intelligence score as


A) the ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100.
B) the ratio of chronological age to mental age multiplied by 100.
C) the amount by which the test-taker's performance deviates from the average
Performance of others the same age.
D) the ratio of the test-taker's verbal intelligence score to his or her nonverbal

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When Professor McGuire asks her students to answer questions in class, she can quickly tell from their facial expressions whether they are happy to participate. Professor McGuire's perceptual skill best illustrates


A) analytical intelligence.
B) divergent thinking.
C) emotional intelligence.
D) factor analysis.

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Psychologists would calculate the relationship between intelligence test scores and school grades in order to assess the ________ of the intelligence test.


A) reliability
B) standardization
C) normal distribution
D) predictive validity

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The intelligence test scores of today's better-fed population ________ the scores of the 1930s population.


A) are higher than
B) are lower than
C) are equal to
D) can't be compared with

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If course exams assess a student's mastery of a representative sample of course material, they are said to


A) be reliable.
B) have content validity.
C) be standardized.
D) have predictive validity.

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A longitudinal study is one in which


A) different age groups are tested at the same time.
B) different characteristics of a specific individual are assessed by a single test.
C) different characteristics of a specific individual are assessed by multiple tests.
D) the same group of people are tested and retested over a period of years.

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Most of the evidence for an age-related decline in intelligence came from


A) cross-sectional research.
B) longitudinal research.
C) standardized research.
D) random sampling.

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Six-year-old Julie performs on an intelligence test at the same level as an average 8-year-old. Julie's mental age is


A) 6.
B) 7.
C) 8.
D) 133.

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Melinda completed the Computer Programming Aptitude Test when she applied for a position with Beta Electronics. Six months later, she took the same test when she applied for a position with another company. The fact that her scores were almost identical on the two occasions suggests that the test has a high degree of


A) content validity.
B) reliability.
C) predictive validity.
D) standardization.

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Whenever Arlo reminded himself that his musical skills could earn him fame and fortune, he became less creative in his musical performance. This best illustrates that creativity may be inhibited by


A) emotional intelligence.
B) a venturesome personality.
C) the g factor.
D) extrinsic motivation.

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Research suggests that women are more skilled than men at


A) avoiding emotional uncertainty.
B) preventing emotions from distorting reasoning.
C) detecting other people's emotions.
D) delaying emotional gratification in pursuit of long-term goals.

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Women have scored ________ on math tests when no male test-takers were in the tested group and Blacks have scored ________ when tested by Blacks than when tested by Whites.


A) lower; lower
B) higher; higher
C) lower; higher
D) higher; lower

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Emotional intelligence is a critical component of


A) creativity.
B) social intelligence.
C) analytical intelligence.
D) convergent thinking.

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The basic mental abilities that go into learning and understanding any subject have been classified as


A) crystallized intelligence.
B) plastic intelligence.
C) fluid intelligence.
D) rote memory.

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