Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. Serat has developed a new test. He gives the test to 1,000 people. Six weeks later he gives the test to the same 1,000 people. Serat is assessing the______of his test.

   A. split-half reliability
   B. test-retest reliability
   C. alternate form reliability
   D. criterion validity

3. In Binet’s test of intelligence , items included at each age level were those which.

   A. Cloud be answered an average child of that age.
   B. Measured rote learning and memory.
   C. Revealed a child’s grade level in school.
   D. Required creative as well as correct answers.

4. Sameena is reading about the history of IQ testing. She finds that Binet’s original intelligence test did not:

   A. deal with the concept of mental age vs. chronological age.
   B. include items for adults.
   C. attempt to test the ability to reason.
   D. assume that children’s ability increased with age.

5. 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.

6. The items actually selected for an intelligence test provide a (n)_______definition of intelligence.

   A. functional
   B. valid
   C. reliable
   D. operational

7. Smedley has a theory that intelligence is related to body temperature. He uses an oral thermometer to measure intelligence. His data most likely have:

   A. poor reliability and poor validity.
   B. good reliability but poor validity
   C. poor reliability but good validity.
   D. good reliability and good validity.

8. A psychologist administers an intelligence test to 100 fourth graders. One month later the psychologist returns and re-administers the test. The psychologist is probably interested in

   A. the validity of the test.
   B. an operational definition of “intelligence.”
   C. the creation of a “culture fair” test.
   D. the reliability of the test.

9. Brain size (adjusted for body size is__________correlated with intelligence, and the speed of taking in perceptual information is_______correlated with intelligence.

   A. negative; negatively
   B. positively; not
   C. positively; negatively
   D. positively; positively

10. In the early stage of measuring intelligence, which type of intelligence did Spearman identify as the underlying feature the contributes to performance across a variety of different tasks?

    A. Perceptual speed
    B. Individual IQ
    C. Crystallized intelligence
    D. General intelligence (g)