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____intelligence increases throughout the life span and is based on cumulative learning experiences, but ___ intelligence steadily declines from middle adulthood and focuses on reasoning effectively.
A. Fluid; Crystallized
B. Crystallized; Fluid
C. Creative; Analytical
D. Analytical; Creative
B. Crystallized; Fluid
Slightly more than two-thirds of the Stanford-Binet IQ scores fall between ___ and ___.
A. 65; 105
B. 75; 110
C. 85; 115
D. 95; 120
C. 85; 115
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fifth Edition (WISC-V) typically tests what age of children?
A. 4 to 8-year-olds
B. 5 to 10-year-olds
C. 6 to 16-year-olds
D. 8 to 18-year-olds
C. 6 to 16-year-olds
Which of the following is not considered to be a part of the Wechsler Scales?
A. WAIS-IV
B. WISC-V
C. WPPSI-IV
D. WASP-I
D. WASP-I
Which of the following is not part of the five components of the WISC-V calculation of IQ?
A. Verbal Comprehension
B. Working Memory
C. Processing Speed
D. Fluid Reasoning
E. Visual-Spatial
F. All of the following are correct
F. All of the following are correct
A 12-year-old child takes a standardized test, and the results show the child passed an equal number of questions equal to the number passed by an average 12-year-old. What is this child’s mental age?
A. 10 years old
B. 12 years old
C. 120 because to get the mental age you have to times their age by 10
D. None of the above
B. 12 years old
Which test continues to be one of the most widely used individual tests of intelligence?
A. Stanford-Binet
B. WAIS-IV
C. WISC-V
D. WPPSI-IV
A. Stanford-Binet
Which of the following does the Bayley Scales of Infant Development not test?
A. Cognition
B. Language
C. Motor
D. Socio-emotional
E. Control of Alertness
E. Control of Alertness
All of the following are reasons for biases in testing except?
A. Tests are biased as a result of being based on skills and knowledge deemed important by the majority culture but not necessarily the minority one
B. Minority children might have different expectations of what type of answers the examiner is looking for
C. The testing situation might be more familiar and comfortable to a middle-class child than to a lower-class child
D. All of the following can cause biases in testing
D. All of the following can cause biases in testing
With of the following does not belong to Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences
A. Linguistic
B. Analytical
C. Interpersonal
D. Bodily-Kinesthetic
E. Spatial
B. Analytical
If someone has a special ability to understand people and relationships, they have ____ intelligence. Whereas if someone has access to one’s emotional life as a means to understand oneself and others they have ____ intelligence.
A. Interpersonal; Intrapersonal
B. Intrapersonal; Interpersonal
A. Interpersonal; Intrapersonal
Which part of Sternberg’s theory of successful intelligence is concerned with how prior knowledge influences performance on certain cognitive tasks?
A. Practical
B. Creative
C. Analytical
B. Creative
___ is the term for when intellectual skills that are critical for survival in one culture might not be as important in another
A. Novelty
B. Meta-component
C. Culture Relativism
D. Heritability
C. Culture Relativism
What is the fear of being judged on the basis of a negative stereotype – can trigger anxiety and interfere with the performance
A. Cultural Relativism
B. Stereotype Threat
C. Biased Anxiety
D. Performance Biases
B. Stereotype Threat
Heritability refers to the proportion of variance in a trait that can be attributed to genetic variance
A. True
B. False
A. True
What is the average range of IQ’s correlated between adopted siblings in childhood?
A. .10 and .20
B. .15 and .25
C. .25 and .39
D. .30 and .35
C. .25 and .39
Twins would have a ___ type of home environment and fraternal children would have a ____type of home environment.
A. Shared; Nonshared
B. Nonshared; Shared
A. Shared; Nonshared
Children under the age of 3 years old are the most vulnerable to the harmful effects of poverty and deprivation, which is why early intervention is necessary.
A. True
B. False
A. True
HOME scores in the first two years of a child can predict academic performance for what age?
A. 10
B. 11
C. 12
D. 13
B. 11
What test uses six subscales and is used to code aspects of a child’s home environment that relate to intellectual development?
A. Family-Environment Scale
B. Home-IQ Scale
C. HOME Scale
D. Abecedarian Program
C. HOME Scale