History of IQ
Vocabulary
True or False
random questions
FUN QUESTIONS
100

Who created the first reliable intelligence test?

Who is Alfred Binet

100

What does IQ stand for?

What is intelligence quotient

100

True or False?

The Bell Curve Graph demonstrates the total number of IQ participants in a study?

What is false

The Bell Curve Graph is used to demonstrate the normal distribution of a trait.

100

Which would be most effective when trying to find the average height of 25 year old women?

A. Record the height of every woman on a basketball team.

or 

B. Record the heights of every woman that lives in the city of Galveston, born in 2001.

B.

100

In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy clicks her ruby slippers together and repeats which famous phrase to get home?


"there's no place like home"

200

Who created the IQ test still used today?

Who is David Wechsler

200

Flynn Effect

Observation that each generation has a significantly higher IQ than the last.

200

True or false?

The average trait is found at the center of the graph (where the cluster is).

What is true

200

So what would be two standard deviations below the mean (100) of IQ scores?

A. An IQ of 70

or

B. An IQ of 98

A.

200

This legendary American tennis player, alongside her sister Venus, dominated women's tennis and won 23 Grand Slam singles titles.

Who is Serena Williams

300

Who was responsible for the first broad test of intelligence?

Who is Sir Francis Galton

300

Who created the new version of IQ test?

Who is David Weschler

300

True or false?

Bell curve graphs work best in small, specific groups.

What is false

The trick to finding a bell curve in nature is to use a large sample size. So that your findings are accurate.

300

True or Fase?

Only 6% of the human population has intellectual disability.

False

It's 2.2%

300

Which 1980 sci-fi sequel features the shocking cinematic revelation when Darth Vader tells Luke Skywalker, "No, I am your father"?

The Empire strikes back

400

Who created the first standardized and normed IQ test?

Who is Louis Terman

400

What is the bell curve? 

A graph that follows the relative shape of the bell and shows data around a central average.

400

True or false

IQ stands for "Intelligence Quotient"

What is true

400

True or False?

An IQ of 100 is the highest IQ one can obtain, and someone with an IQ 100 is a genius.

False

100 is the average IQ.

400

One of the top ten most populous cities in the U.S. includes Dallas, San Antonio & this other Texas city.

Houston

500

What college was Louis Terman a professor at?

What is Stanford

500

In the Atkins vs Virginia case was Atkins let off easy because of his IQ score? 

No, he just received life in prison instead of death row

500

True or false?

One standard deviation for IQ scoring is 25 points.

false

One standard deviation is 15 points.

500

How many intellectual disability types are there?

Four (mild, moderate, severe, profound)

500

What is the oldest public school in Texas?

Ball high school