Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. 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.

3. Which are the most widely used individual tests of intelligence?

   A. Wechsler tests
   B. Stanford-Binet tests
   C. IQ tests
   D. Reaction time tests

4. What do intelligence tests actually measure?

   A. only knowledge
   B. a person’s creativity
   C. only potential
   D. a blend of knowledge and potential

5. Everyone would agree that intelligence tests are “blased” in the sense that:

   A. the heritability of intelligence is very high.
   B. the reliability of intelligence test is close to zero.
   C. numerical scores of intelligence serve to dehumanize individuals.
   D. test performance is influenced by cultural experiences

6. 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

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

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

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. In which of the following countries are IQ tests LEAST likely to be used?

    A. France
    B. Britain
    C. Australia
    D. China