Related Mcqs:

1. The WAIS was designed for testing_________intelligence, whereas the WISC was designed for testing_______intelligence.

   A. Europeans’; North Americans’
   B. general; emotional
   C. analytical; emotional
   D. adults’; children’s

2. The WAIS consists of separate________subjects.

   A. aptitude and achievement
   B. intelligence and creativity
   C. emotions and reasoning
   D. verbal and performance

3. Standardization includes formalizing testing procedures and establishing

   A. goals
   B. plans
   C. norms
   D. forms

4. Evidence obtained from measures of reaction time. inspection time and psychological changes suggest that general intelligence has a _______ basis.

   A. Biological
   B. Social
   C. Cognitive
   D. Cultural

5. Evidence indicating that urbringing affects one’s mental ability is provided by which of the following findings?

   A. Identical twins are more similar in IQ than fraternal twins
   B. There is more than a chance similarity between adopted children and their biological parents.
   C. Siblings reared together are more similar in IQ than sibling reared apart.
   D. Identical twins reared apart are more similar Iq siblings reared together.

6. 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.

7. 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)

8. Flynn has shown that there has been a standard deviation increase, per generation, in the mean level of intelligence test performance for most of this country in Western society, which equates to about three IQ points per decade. He believes that such a difference has to be result of which one of the following?

   A. An environmental change, because gene frequencies in populations couldn’t change so quickly.
   B. Improvements in the gene pool as we evolve.
   C. A statistical artefact.
   D. None of the above.

9. 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

10. 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.