Important People
IQ Test Questions
Vocab
Misc.
100
Who is Christopher Langan?
“Many call the smartest man in America.” Langam had an IQ of oe ninety-five, and became the public face of genius in American life, a celebrity outlier. Because of his strange rise to fame, he was asked onto many game tv shows, like One versus One Hundred, to be tested by just how smart he is.
100
Name all of the different uses for the following objects:
1. Brick
2. Blanket
There is no right or wrong answer, this test is to figure out how many different creative uses you can think of.
100
Divergence Test
it requires you to take your imagination and take your mind in as many different directions as possible
100
Name 3 schools where Americans who won Nobel Prizes go to starting in 2007.
Antioch College,Brown University, UC Berkeley, University of Washington, Columbia University, MIT, Caltech, Harvard, Hamilton College, University of North Carolina, DePauw University, UPenn, University of Minnesota, University of Norte Dame, John Hopkins, Yale, Union College, University of Illinois, University of Texas, Holy Cross, Amherst College, Gettysburg College, Hunter College,
200
Who wrote the 1980 book Bias in Mental Testing?
Arthur Jensen
200
What does a divergence test do?
It is a test that gives you a prompt and lets you "diverge" on all the possible answers instead of giving you options and having you choose from those.
200
Convergent Test
a test that focuses on finding one well-defined solution for the problem
200
Does IQ score necessarily mean that an individual is smarter than others?
No, as it says on page 80 some people are just better and do better at thinking in certain subjects than others for example Langan's IQ is 195 and Einstiens was 150, but that doesn't mean that Langan is smarter, it just means that when it comes to something hard enough they are BOTH good enough and smart enough to know.
300
Who was one of the first psychologists to study exceptionally gifted students?
Lewis Terman and young professor of phycology at Stanford University
300
What kind of IQ test question is this?
Raven's Progressive Matrices
300
Nobel Prize
an international award administrated by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm Sweden. It has 5 separate prizes including physics, chemistry, psychology or medicine, literature and peace.
300
Difference between Convergent and Divergent
A convergent test is a test where you look for one answer to one solution for the problem... a divergent test is a test where you let your imagination and mind run free and try to find multiple and sometimes unexplainable solutions for the problem.
400
Who is Berry Schwartz? Describe his relevance in the book....
"He proposed that elite schools give up their complex admissions process and simply hold a lottery for everyone above the threshold.”
400
Solve this problem:
Answer: The top right one
400
What are "Termites"
A group of young geniuses that Termnan tested and who averaged over 140 and ranged as high as 200.
400
What is the threshold for which a higher IQ doesn't necessarily offer a measurable real-world advantage?
120
500
Who was Lewis Terman?
A Stanford professor of psychology who specialized in intelligence testing.
500
Solve this problem:
Answer: the bottom right one
500
What does IQ mean
intelligence quotient; total score derived from standardized tests or subtests designed to assess human intelligence.
500
What was Cowell's IQ when he first got tested?
Above 140