The person responsible for the development and design of the first useful individual test of intelligence is:

Related Mcqs:

1. 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...

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

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

3. 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...

4. 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...

5. 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....

6. 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....

7. 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...

8. 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...

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....