Review of Myers Chapter 10 Intelligence
1. When we refer to someone's intelligence quotient as if it were a fixed and objectively real trait such as height, we commit a reasoning error called
A) standardization.
B) factor analysis.
C) convergent thinking.
D) reification.
2. The sort of problem solving that demonstrates "school smarts" is what researchers have historically assessed in their tests of
A) divergent thinking.
B) intelligence.
C) intrinsic motivation.
D) neural plasticity.
3. Investigators detected a tendency for those who excelled in one of Thurstone's seven primary mental abilities to also demonstrate high levels of competence in other abilities. This provided some evidence of
A) neural plasticity.
B) standardization.
C) divergent thinking.
D) general intelligence.
4. A person who demonstrates an exceptional specific mental skill while otherwise remaining very limited in intellectual capacity is said to show signs of
A) emotional intelligence.
B) savant syndrome.
C) neural plasticity.
D) intrinsic motivation.
5. Psychological tests show that 18-year-old Isaiah has an intelligence score of 65. Nevertheless, Isaiah can, with a few seconds of mental calculation, accurately tell the day of the week on which Christmas falls for any year in this century. It would be fair to conclude that
A) the intelligence test Isaiah was given has no validity.
B) intelligence tests are generally good measures of verbal but not of mathematical intelligence.
C) Isaiah is a person with savant syndrome.
D) Isaiah excels in divergent thinking.
6. The components of creativity include
A) impulsivity and empathy.
B) expertise and a venturesome personality.
C) competitiveness and dogmatism.
D) imagination and extrinsic motivation.
7. Emotional intelligence is a critical component of
A) creativity.
B) social intelligence.
C) analytical intelligence.
D) convergent thinking.
8. Higher intelligence scores are positively correlated with the volume of ________ in specific brain areas involved in memory, attention, and language.
A) endorphins
B) white matter
C) epinephrine
D) gray matter
9. Lewis Terman's widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test was the
A) WISC.
B) WAIS.
C) Stanford-Binet.
D) SAT.
10. A 6-year-old who responded to the original Stanford-Binet with the proficiency typical of an average 8-year-old was said to have an IQ of
A) 75.
B) 85.
C) 125.
D) 133.
11. A bell-shaped curve that characterizes a large sample of intelligence test scores is a graphic representation of a
A) factor analysis.
B) normal distribution.
C) heritability estimate.
D) g factor.
12. About ________ percent of WAIS scores fall between 70 and 130.
A) 30
B) 60
C) 70
D) 95
13. A college administrator is trying to assess whether an admissions test accurately predicts how well applicants will perform at his school. The administrator is most obviously concerned that the test is
A) standardized.
B) valid.
C) factor-analyzed.
D) normally distributed.
14. Terman observed that children with IQ scores over 135 are likely to
A) be athletically uncoordinated.
B) be academically successful.
C) lack intrinsic motivation.
D) have all of these characteristics.
15. In solving math computation problems, women perform ________ than men. In solving math reasoning problems, women perform ________ than men.
A) worse; worse
B) better; better
C) worse; better
D) better; worse
16. On which of the following tasks are males most likely to outperform females?
A) speed-reading
B) interpreting literature
C) learning a foreign language
D) mentally rotating three-dimensional objects
17. Self-fulfilling expectations are most likely to be triggered by
A) the Flynn effect.
B) factor analysis.
C) savant syndrome.
D) stereotype threat.