A. Biological
B. Social
C. Cognitive
D. Cultural
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following statements concerning the relationship between inspection time and IQ is true?
A. The longer the inspection time, the greater the intelligence.
B. The longer the inspection time, the lower the intelligence.
C. The shorter the inspection time, the lower the intelligence.
D. Inspection time and intelligence are not related. - 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 - By measuring the extent to which identical twins reared together score differently on intelligence tests researchers can determine the influence of which factors on intelligence?
A. Shared environments
B. Non-shared environments
C. Shared and non-shared environments
D. Genetic traits - 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) - The items actually selected for an intelligence test provide a (n)_______definition of intelligence.
A. functional
B. valid
C. reliable
D. operational - 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. - 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 - It is generally accepted that there is such a thing as general intelligence. So which of the following statements is true?
A. Some people have general intelligence, other have multiple intelligences.
B. The only people who do not have general intelligence are those that have IQs less than 100.
C. General intelligence develops by adulthood.
D. General intelligence can be thought of a “mental energy’ that is applied to all tasks that we attempt. - 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. - Comparing the average performance of the initial WAIS standardization sample with the average performance of the most recent WAIS standardization sample provides convincing evidence of:
A. the g factor.
B. heritability.
C. the Flynn effect
D. intrinsic motivation.