A. Randomization
B. Consensus
C. Directed sampling
D. standardization
Related Mcqs:
- Sadiq and Tahir had an excellent time-travel adventure back to 1916. In order to come back to present sadiq (who is a little below average in intelligence needs a score of 115 on the stanford-Binet Intelligence Test, Sadiq has to convince Professor Tahir that he is_______than he actually is, because the Stanford-Binet IQ was calculated as________.
A. older; (mental age/chronological age 10
B. younger; (mental age/chronological age 100
C. older; (chronological age/mental age 10
D. younger; (chronological age/mental age 10 - Which of the following is a likely consequences of stereotype vulnerability for members of minority groups?
A. Academic motivation declines.
B. Academic performance often suffers.
C. Standardized tests may to be especially anxiety arousing.
D. All of the above are likely consequences. - Mental retardation caused by birth injuries or fetal damage is called_______retardation.
A. cretinism.
B. adaptive behavior.
C. microcephaly.
D. eugenics. - 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 percentage of people diagnosed with mental retardation has_________over the past 80 years because intelligence test have been______.
A. decreased; restandardized
B. decreased; factor analyzed
C. increased; factor analyzed
D. increased; restandardized - Terman’s longitudinal study of people with extremely high IQs found that nearly all of them:
A. dropped out of high school and became entrepreneurs.
B. tended to live just as long as their lower IQ score counterparts.
C. had higher than average physical and mental health
D. became world-famous inventors, writers, artists, etc. - Which one of the following assertions is true? Galton’s notion of the normal distribution’ tells us:
A. That if your IQ score is anywhere on the distribution, then you are normal.
B. That as we consider scores increasingly higher or lower than the norm, there will be more and more people registering those scores.
C. That for any of our ‘natural gifts'(physical, temperament or intellectual) there will be an average’ amount of that feature, to which most people approximate.
D. That most people who complete a university degree will be at the lower end of the distribution. - IQ tests have proven to be good predictors of:
A. Social intelligence
B. Practical problem-solving intelligence
C. school performance
D. all of the above - Yasmin is a 23-year-old female who only completed the third grade. She is employed in a sheltered workshop and has a difficult time with mild stress. Yasmin is MOST likely:
A. profoundly mentally retarded.
B. suffering from emotional lability brought on by a deficiency of serotonin
C. moderately mentally retarded
D. schizophrenic-hebephrenic subtype - The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations is known as:
A. intelligence
B. standardization.
C. divergent thinking.
D. inductive reasoning.