Related Mcqs:

1. 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.

2. Which of the following is a factor that influences success for the gifted?

   A. extrinsic motivation
   B. level of adjustment
   C. persistence
   D. sibling rivarly

3. Mental retardation is represented by which of the following characteristics?

   A. Low general intelligence
   B. Slow on-line processing
   C. A known organic etiology
   D. IQ below 70
   E. All of the above

4. Anderson argues three of the following-but which ONE is NOT in line with his arguments?

   A. The first route to knowledge is through thought (central processes).
   B. The thought route to knowledge is unrelated to individual differences in IQ.
   C. Thoughtful problem solving can be done either by verbalizing a problem (using language-like propositions to think) or by visualizing (usingvisou-spatial representations to think.
   D. We need two different kinds of knowledge acquisitions routines, each generated by one of two specific processors.

5. The measured difference in IQ between African Americans and white Americans is most likely to be due to which one of the following factors?

   A. Bias in testing.
   B. Genetics.
   C. Environmental differences.
   D. Lack of effort.

6. Research shows that IQ scores are valid predictors of all of the following EXCEPT:

   A. School gardens
   B. Emotional intelligence
   C. Occupational status
   D. Job performance

7. 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.

8. Galton introduced the idea of correlation (or co-relation) and showed which of the following to be true?

   A. A correlation of -1 indicates that there is no relationship between the two variables being considered.
   B. Correlations should only be used with variables that are normally distributed.
   C. If variable A (e.g. height) shows a correlation with variable B (e.g. weight) of +10, then we know that A caused
   D. IQ was correlated with job performance.

9. All of the following represents intelligence from Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences except for________.

   A. Bodily-Kinesthetic
   B. Cultural
   C. Musical
   D. Naturalist

10. 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.