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What is one limitation of Galton's research? |
| | A) | He only researched people raised in poverty. |
| | B) | He focused on computational and numerical skills. |
| | C) | He only conducted research on women and minorities. |
| | D) | He missed the implications that being raised in a privileged environment has for IQ. |
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Why is Stern's traditional concept of IQ, which incorporates mental age and chronological age, no longer used? |
| | A) | It is not very useful for assessing the intelligence of children. |
| | B) | It has poor reliability. |
| | C) | It is not very useful for assessing the intelligence of adults. |
| | D) | It is difficult to calculate. |
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To study intelligence, psychologists have relied primarily upon 2 approaches, the ___________approach and the _________________approach. |
| | A) | psychometric; cognitive processes |
| | B) | psychodynamic; cognitive processes |
| | C) | problem-solving; hierarchical |
| | D) | psychometric; problem-solving |
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The ‘g’ factor can best be described as |
| | A) | an unusual intellectual ability. |
| | B) | the core of intelligence. |
| | C) | the level of intellectual giftedness one possesses. |
| | D) | an intellectual ability that does not vary among individuals. |
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The ability to retrieve and use previously learned information and which forms the basis for expertise is known as ___________ intelligence. |
| | A) | fluid |
| | B) | crystallised |
| | C) | emotional |
| | D) | expert |
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Your ability to reason abstractly and think logically so that you can solve new problems depends largely on your _____________ intelligence. |
| | A) | fluid |
| | B) | crystallised |
| | C) | practical |
| | D) | adaptive |
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The three main components of Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence include |
| | A) | practical components, performance components and knowledge acquisition components. |
| | B) | metacomponents, performance components and knowledge acquisition components. |
| | C) | analytical components, metacomponents and knowledge acquisition components. |
| | D) | metacomponents, mesocomponents and microcomponents. |
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Which of the following theorists developed a theory of intelligence with eight distinct varieties of adaptive abilities? |
| | A) | Howard Gardner |
| | B) | Peter Salovey |
| | C) | John Mayer |
| | D) | John B. Carroll |
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Thomas recently took a test designed to measure how much he has learned at school. Which kind of test is Thomas most likely to have taken? |
| | A) | An intelligence test |
| | B) | An aptitude test |
| | C) | An achievement test |
| | D) | A knowledge acquisition test |
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______________ describes how well a test measures what it is designed to measure, whereas __________ refers to the consistency of measurement. |
| | A) | Standardisation; reliability |
| | B) | Internal consistency; validity |
| | C) | Test-retest reliability; validity |
| | D) | Validity; reliability |
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Which of the following statements concerning the relationship between genetics and intelligence is true? |
| | A) | The more genes people have in common, the more similar their IQs tend to be. |
| | B) | Researchers suggest that there is an ‘intelligence gene’. |
| | C) | Genetics plays a very small role in intelligence. |
| | D) | Genetics explains the vast majority of one's intellectual abilities. |
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The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) measures emotional intelligence on which of the following domains? |
| | A) | perceiving emotions; using emotions to facilitate thought; understanding emotions; managing emotions |
| | B) | perceiving emotions; emotional coping; understanding emotions; managing emotions |
| | C) | perceiving emotions; emotional suppression; understanding emotions; emotional coping |
| | D) | emotional coping; using emotions to facilitate thought; understanding emotions; managing emotions |
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Which of the following statements best describes the Flynn effect? |
| | A) | It is the opposite of the rising curve phenomenon. |
| | B) | Women perform better on tests of perceptual speed. |
| | C) | IQs in the West are falling every decade. |
| | D) | IQs in the West are increasing every decade. |
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Which of the following statements concerning sex differences in cognitive abilities is true? |
| | A) | Men perform better on tests of perceptual speed. |
| | B) | The cognitive abilities performance distributions of men and women overlap considerably. |
| | C) | Women are more accurate in target directed skills. |
| | D) | Sex differences in cognitive abilities are caused solely by environmental factors. |
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What does mainstreaming refer to? |
| | A) | Educating children with learning disabilities in separate schools from regular education children |
| | B) | Educating children with learning disabilities in the same schools as regular education children |
| | C) | Educating children with learning disabilities on a one to one basis |
| | D) | Home schooling children with learning disabilities |
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