A. Study skills
B. School performance
C. Environment
D. Race
Related Mcqs:
- Estimates of heritability for intelligence range between_________.
A. 25% to 35%
B. 50% to 60%
C. 50% to 80%
D. 0% to 100% - Aaamir, age 55, plays basketball with much younger adults and is concerned that his teammates might consider his age to be a detriment to their game outcome. His concern actually undermines his athletic performance. This best illustrates the impact of:
A. the Flynn effect.
B. divergent thinking.
C. savant syndrome.
D. stereotype threat. - The person responsible for the development and design of the first useful individual test of intelligence is:
A. Freud
B. Terman
C. Binet
D. Wechsler - The best summary statement regarding the role of heredity on human intelligence is that
A. heredity may impose upper limits on intelligence.
B. heredity may impose lower limits on intelligence.
C. intelligence is almost completely related to genetic inheritance.
D. the similarity in IQ scores among maternal relatives is greater that that among paternal relatives. - Dr. Ahmad administerd his new intelligence test to a group of subjects and then compared each subject’s score on the old-numbereds. He found a large positive correlation between the odd and even scores, indicating the test has:
A. predictive validity.
B. split-half reliability.
C. criterion validity.
D. construct validity. - When there is a large discrepancy between achievement and IQ scores there may be:
A. Austim
B. An attention deficit disorder
C. A learning disorder
D. Mental retardation - Which of the following is a factor that influences success for the gifted?
A. extrinsic motivation
B. level of adjustment
C. persistence
D. sibling rivarly - Factor analysis is a statistical procedure that can be used to:
A. evaluate how accurately test items predict a criterion behavior.
B. derive IQ scores by comparing mental age with chronological age.
C. extract test norms from a standardization sample.
D. identify clusters of closely related test items - The term “g-factor,” written about by Neisser, refers to _____________?
A. generation factors
B. general abilities
C. Gardner factors
D. group factors - Roshan, a 10th grader, took a test that measured his potential for college success. Jill, another 10th grader, took a test on the math chapter that had just been covered in class, Roshan most likely took an______test and Jill most likely took an______test.
A. aptitude; aptitude
B. achievement; aptitude
C. aptitude; achievement
D. achievement; achievement