A. Severe retardation
B. hydrocephaly
C. phenylketonuria
D. Down syndrome
Related Mcqs:
- Mental retardation caused by birth injuries or fetal damage is called_______retardation.
A. cretinism.
B. adaptive behavior.
C. microcephaly.
D. eugenics. - Which of the following is a true statement about mental retardation?
A. Most retarded people are unable to live normal lives because of their mental deficiencies.
B. With special tutoring, a mentally retarded person can attain average intelligence.
C. The majority of mentally retarded people fall in the mildly retarded category.
D. Diagnoses of mental retardation should be based exclusively on IQ scores. - Research on mental retardation indicates that:
A. most mentally retarded individuals suffer from savant syndrome.
B. most mentally retarded individuals are unable to profit from vocational training.
C. most mentally retarded individuals are unable to function within mainstream society.
D. none of the above is true - The percentage of people diagnosed with mental retardation has_________over the past 80 years because intelligence test have been______.
A. decreased; restandardized
B. decreased; factor analyzed
C. increased; factor analyzed
D. increased; restandardized - 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 - Who would have been most enthusiastic about the value of an single intelligence test score as an index of an individual’s mental capacities?
A. Thurstone
B. Sternberg
C. Gardner
D. Spearman - 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. - _______intelligence tests assess a wide variety of mental abilities.
A. IQ
B. Special
C. Multiple
D. General - If Jane’s intelligence quotient is 100,we know that she has a _____________?
A. perfect score on a set of age-related tests.
B. test performance superior to 90% of other children the same age who took the test.
C. mental age typical of children who have the same chronological age.
D. mental age below those of children with the same chronoligical age. - The term “g-factor,” written about by Neisser, refers to _____________?
A. generation factors
B. general abilities
C. Gardner factors
D. group factors