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Question 111

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An intelligence test is typically thought of as being ___________.

A) almost entirely an achievement test
B) almost entirely an aptitude test
C) partly an achievement and partly an aptitude test
D) neither an achievement nor an aptitude test

E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

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Question 112

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Which of the following individuals first adapted Alfred Binet's intelligence test for using with American children?

A) Francis Galton
B) David Wechsler
C) Lewis Terman
D) Robert Sternberg

E) A) and C)
F) C) and D)

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Question 113

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Juan has a mental age of 10 and an IQ of 125. How old is Juan?

A nursing school graduate is preparing for their entry to practice exam. They sign up for a reputable company that offer simulated exams that accurately correlate with the performance in actual entry to practice exams. The reason these test are accurate is because they have a criterion-related validity.

Although a separate model of intelligence, Cattell and Horn's fluid versus crystallized intelligence is really an extension of

What differences are found in average IQ between ethnic groups in North America? Explain two ways that intelligence tests might be biased.

Both you and your colleague decide to rate the friendliness of everyone in your business to customers. If you agreed on most of your ratings, we would say that you have ______.

Imagine that a new test of academic ability is NOT strongly associated with criterion measures such as actual high school or college academic performance. This lack of association specifically implies that this test has low ______________ validity.

Creating a well-controlled testing environment in which extraneous factors will not influence test scores is most relevant to establishing which of the following?

Spearman concluded that intellectual performance is determined partly by ___________ and partly by whatever ___________ abilities might be required to perform that particular task.

Your child is nervous about an IQ test that they are scheduled to take in the near future. You try to explain that it's only an estimate and people disagree about how to measure intelligence, let alone how to even define it. They ask you, all things being equal, what the most common (i.e. frequently occurring) IQ score is. What would you tell them?

Environmental explanations of the differences in cognitive abilities between men and women have typically focused on the role of

A highly skilled dancer, athlete, or surgeon exemplifies __________ intelligence.

According to the text, biological explanations for gender differences in cognitive abilities have increasingly focused on the developing brain and on current cognitive performance that is impacted by ___________.

Carroll's three-stratum theory of cognitive abilities is an integrative model of intelligence that contains elements from which three theorists?

Long-term memory contributes strongly to ___________ intelligence, whereas ___________ intelligence is particularly dependent on efficient working memory.

Cattell and Horn made an important distinction between _______ and _______ intelligence.

Research on the potential impact of physiological brain functioning on intelligence has suggested that intelligent people have brains that

If a child has a mental age of 7 and a chronological age of 4, her IQ score would be

The Stanford-Binet Intelligence test was developed by ___________.