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. 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

3. In Binet’s test of intelligence , items included at each age level were those which.

   A. Cloud be answered an average child of that age.
   B. Measured rote learning and memory.
   C. Revealed a child’s grade level in school.
   D. Required creative as well as correct answers.

4. 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

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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)

10. 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.