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

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

3. Alfred Binet developed his intelligence test to ____________?

   A. identify soldiers for certain military duties.
   B. show that intelligence was influenced by genetic and environmental factors.
   C. measure what a person has accomplished or learned in a particular area.
   D. identify children who needed special education programs

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. 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

6. With increasing age, adopted children’s intelligence test scores become________like their adoptive parents’scores and_______similar to their biological parent’s scores.

   A. more; less
   B. less; more
   C. less; less
   D. more; more

7. 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.

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. 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.

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)