Related Mcqs:

1. Comparing the average performance of the initial WAIS standardization sample with the average performance of the most recent WAIS standardization sample provides convincing evidence of:

   A. the g factor.
   B. heritability.
   C. the Flynn effect
   D. intrinsic motivation.

2. The WAIS was designed for testing_________intelligence, whereas the WISC was designed for testing_______intelligence.

   A. Europeans’; North Americans’
   B. general; emotional
   C. analytical; emotional
   D. adults’; children’s

3. The knowledge a person has already required and the ability to access that knowledge is known as

   A. Semantic knowledge
   B. Fluid intelligence
   C. General knowledge
   D. Crystallized intelligence

4. Which of the following is one of Gardner’s types of intelligence?

   A. executive skills
   B. ethics
   C. music
   D. creativity

5. Ana has a score of 115 on an IQ test that can be compared to the score of hundreds of other people who took the some test. The capability to compare scores statistically is a function of

   A. norms
   B. validity.
   C. reliability.
   D. stability.

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

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

7. Researchers have suggested that IQ is inherited and that about_______percent of the variance in IQ is due to genetic makeup.

   A. 50%
   B. 70%
   C. 10%
   D. 25%

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

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

9. All of the following refer reliability EXCEPT______reliability.

   A. Split-half
   B. Test-retest
   C. Predictive
   D. Parallel forms

10. When the same procedures are used in giving a test to all people, the test has been:

    A. validated
    B. normalized
    C. operationalized
    D. standardized