Testing
Genetic Influences
Potpourri
100

An underlying, general intelligence factor

What is the g factor?

100

These type of twins have similar gray matter volume.

What are identical twins?

100

Kim's intelligence score at age 15 was 145. Her score at age 60 probably will be...

What is 145?

200
The SAT is an example of this type of test

What is an aptitude test?

200

With age, adopted children's intelligence scores become more positively correlated with their __________ parents.

What is biological?

200

Terman's revision of Binet's original intelligence test

What is Stanford-Binet?

300

A 6-year-old child has a mental age of 9. The child's IQ is.....

What is 150?

300

The extent to which differences among people are attributable to genes.

What is heritability?

300

A test that yields consistent results every time it is used has a high degree of this.

What is reliability?

400

This test provides separate verbal comprehension, perceptual organization, working memory, and processing speed scores.

What is WAIS.

400

This percent of the population is mentally retarded.

What is about 1 percent?

400

According to the book, today's intelligence test scores are higher than those of this decade.

What are the 1930s?

500

Sternberg's three types of intelligences

What is analytical, creative, and practical?

500

Identical twins have brains that are virtually the same in areas associated with these two intelligences.

What are verbal and spatial intelligences?

500

The existence of this disorder reinforces the notion that intelligence is a multidimensional quality.

What is savant syndrome?