2. To assess mental age Binet and
Simon measured children's
A. mathematical skills
C. reasoning skills
D. attention span
3. The knowledge and skills obtained
through learning and experience is called
A. crystallized intelligence
B. Flynn effect
C. Doppler effect
D. fluid intelligence
4. If a seven-year-old child takes Alfred Binet's test of
intelligence and has a mental age of eight,
A. his chronological age must be eight.
B. he is less intelligent than most eight year olds.
C. his score equals the average score of eight year olds.
D. he is in need of remedial education.
5. The best indicator of infant's
intellectual aptitude is their
A. tendency to quickly shift their
gaze from a familiar to a novel picture
B. birth weight
C. ability to discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar voices
D. head circumference at birth
6. IQ scores of identical twins
tend to be more alike than those of same-sex fraternal twins.
This might be taken as very good evidence for a hereditary effect.
On the other hand, which of the following possible findings would
give the best evidence AGAINST such a conclusion?
A. Parents treat identical twins more alike than they do fraternal
B. Identical twins are typically born into middle-class families,
where they both are provided with stimulating environments
C. when adopted, all twins scores become more similar to adoptive
parents and less like biological parents
D. Identical twins tend to have similar achievement test scores
7. To be a good inventor, which of
the kinds of intelligence described by Sternberg would you most
8. The right side of your brain
controls the _______ side of your body and the left side of your
brain controls the _______ side of your body
A. left; right
B. right; left
C. right; right
D. left; left
9. A measure of the correlation
between scores of the same people on the same test given two times
A. split-half reliability.
B. criterion validity.
C. test-retest reliability.
D. face validity.
10. Peter says that he is
intellectually gifted because he scored 140 on his IQ test. This
attitude is commonly known as
D. The Flynn effect