Quiz 8 Intelligence and Psychological Testing

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Quiz 8Intelligence andPsychological
Testing
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You are most likely to find the words
administration, scoring and interpretation in
the definition of _____.

• reliability
• validity
• standardization
• reaction range

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The correct order of the development of the
first three important intelligence tests was
_____.

• Binet-Simon ? Stanford-Binet ? WAIS
• Stanford-Binet ? Binet-Simon ? WAIS
• WAIS ? Stanford-Binet ? Binet-Simon
• Binet-Simon ? WAIS ? Stanford-Binet

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This test is an example of a(n) _____ test.

• personality
• intelligence
• aptitude
• achievement

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A percentile score is useful because it allows
you to understand _____.

• the concept of internal consistency
• the variability of the scores in a distribution
• the difference between test-retest and
  internal-consistency reliability scores
• where your score falls in comparison to the
  scores of other people who took the test

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18-year-old Karen and her 80-year-old
grandmother Pearl took two IQ tests, one that
measures fluid intelligence and one that measures
crystallized intelligence. If Karen and Pearl
are similar to other people their age, then Karen
will score higher on the test of _____
intelligence and Pearl will score higher on the
test of _____ intelligence.

• crystallized, fluid
• fluid, crystallized
• Their scores are likely to be the same.
• Not enough information has been given to answer
  this question.

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Melissas life revolves around basketball,
and she is pleased that her first born child is a
son who can grow up and play for the Pacers when
Reggie Miller decides to retire. When Melissa
read the results of her sons first physical
exam, she noticed that he scored at the 3rd
percentile on the measure of height for male
infants. If Melissa understands the concept of
percentiles, this score will make her very _____
because it means that her son is _____ of all
other male infants his age.

• happy, taller than 97
• happy, shorter than only 3
• sad, shorter than 97
• both a and b

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DailyDouble!

• The next question is worth twice as many points
  as normal.

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You will be most likely to find the word
_____ in a definition of the term reliability?

• standardization
• validity
• consistency
• accuracy

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The formula for determining IQ is _____.

• mental age 100 x chronological age
• chronological age x 100 mental age
• chronological age mental age x 100
• mental age chronological age x 100

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Both test-retest and internal-consistency
reliability are measured by computing a _____.

• standard deviation
• correlation coefficient
• heritability ratio
• reaction range

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What would Dr. Minoso be measuring if she
gave a test to a group of people, divided the
test in half (e.g., the odd-numbered items and
the even-numbered items), and then computed a
correlation coefficient of the scores of these
two halves?

• test-retest reliability
• internal-consistency reliability
• criterion-related validity
• concurrent validity

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Bonnie's psychology teacher told her class
that their final exam would be comprehensive
(i.e., it would cover material from the entire
textbook and all the lectures), but the only
questions he asked came from the first five
chapters in the textbook and his last two
lectures. Bonnie performed very poorly on her
final exam and decided to appeal her low grade to
the Academic Dean on the basis of the low _____
validity of her teacher's test.

• criterion-related
• test-retest
• content
• alternate-forms

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Concurrent validity is to _____, as
predictive validity is to _____.

• the same time, the future
• the future, the same time
• behavior, mental process
• mental process, behavior

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Dr. Halonen wants to know if the SAT does a
good job predicting who will graduate from
college in four years and who will not. To
investigate this question, she decides to record
the SAT scores of all the freshmen admitted to
her college in the fall of 2000 and then look for
their names on the 2005 graduation program. Dr.
Halonen is testing the _____ validity of the SAT.

• content
• concurrent
• predictive
• construct

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Which of the following types of validity is
used to measure the ability of a test to measure
a particular hypothetical construct?

• content
• concurrent
• criterion-related
• construct

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Jeromes IQ is below 20. He has very poor
language and self-help skills, suffers from a
neurological disorder, and functions well only in
a highly structured environment with one-on-one
supervision. Jerome would most likely be
classified as _____ retarded.

• mildly
• moderately
• profoundly
• severely

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Jenny has been classified as a gifted child.
This means that she _____.

• falls into the upper 20 of the IQ distribution
• has an IQ score of 120 or above
• has superior potential in specific aptitudes,
  general intelligence, leadership, performing
  arts, athletics, or creativity
• all of the above

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_____ would be most likely to say that if
John is bright in one school subject (e.g.,
math), then he will be bright in other subjects
as well (e.g., English).

• Galton
• Sternberg
• Guilford
• Spearman

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If Sir Frances Galton was in charge of
issuing marriage licenses and you wanted to get
married, then he would require you and your
future spouse to take a(n) _____ test before he
would issue you a license.

• blood
• IQ
• marital aptitude
• social compatibility

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Dr. Thurston believes that heredity places
limits on your intelligence and your environment
determines where your IQ will actually fall
within those limits. If you read one of Dr.
Thurstons books, you would encounter the term
_____ most often.

• giftedness
• reaction range
• eugenics
• environmental ratio

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Dr. Shubert has been hired by a testing
company to develop a procedure to insure that all
people who take the companys tests will have the
tests administered and scored in the same manner.
If you looked at Dr. Shuberts resume, you
would probably notice that his strongest
professional expertise is in the area of test
_____.

• norms
• reliability
• validity
• standardization

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Tom volunteered to be a participant in a
psychology study in which he took a personality
test at the beginning and then again at the end
of the semester. The researcher in this study
was most likely measuring the _____ of this
personality test.

• content validity
• test-retest validity
• concurrent reliability
• none of the above