Testing
An underlying, general intelligence factor
What is the g factor?
These type of twins have similar gray matter volume.
What are identical twins?
Kim's intelligence score at age 15 was 145. Her score at age 60 probably will be...
What is 145?
What is an aptitude test?
With age, adopted children's intelligence scores become more positively correlated with their __________ parents.
What is biological?
Terman's revision of Binet's original intelligence test
What is Stanford-Binet?
A 6-year-old child has a mental age of 9. The child's IQ is.....
What is 150?
The extent to which differences among people are attributable to genes.
What is heritability?
A test that yields consistent results every time it is used has a high degree of this.
What is reliability?
This test provides separate verbal comprehension, perceptual organization, working memory, and processing speed scores.
What is WAIS.
This percent of the population is mentally retarded.
What is about 1 percent?
According to the book, today's intelligence test scores are higher than those of this decade.
What are the 1930s?
Sternberg's three types of intelligences
What is analytical, creative, and practical?
Identical twins have brains that are virtually the same in areas associated with these two intelligences.
What are verbal and spatial intelligences?
The existence of this disorder reinforces the notion that intelligence is a multidimensional quality.
What is savant syndrome?