Key People Quiz

Match the statement to the relevant name.


1				Created the first test to determine which children would do well in school


2				Proposed a theory of seven kinds of intelligence


3				Created the major alternative to the Stanford-Binet intelligence test


4				Described gifted children in terms of precocity, own drummer, and passion


5				Developed the triarchic theory of intelligence


6				Talked about the importance of getting students to think reflectively


7				Says that telling children exactly how to do things leaves them feeling that any originality is a mistake and any exploration is a waste of time


8				Children who are fluent in two languages perform better than their single-language counterparts on tests of cognitive abilities


9				Schools spend too much time getting students to give a single correct answer rather than encouraging them to expand their thinking


10				Distinguished between convergent thinking and divergent thinking


11				Developed a number of model French immersion programs for English-speaking children


12				Concrete operational thought is made up of mental actions that allow children to do mentally what they have done physically before


13				Devised a method of identifying children who were unable to learn in school


14				People have both a general intelligence and specific types of intelligence


15				Created the concept of intelligence quotient (IQ)


16				Found that gifted children were not only academically gifted but also socially well adjusted


17				People have seven specific abilities related to intelligence


18				Have noticed a disturbing trend towards obesity among young children in Canada, the U.S., and Australia


19				Metacognition should be a strong focus to help children think critically


20				The key to education is helping students learn a rich repertoire of strategies


21				Pointed out that children who begin elementary school with a small vocabulary are at risk when it comes to learning to read


22				Concluded that teachers should be made aware of gifted children’s cognitive styles and be willing to accommodate their needs

Answer choices for questions 1 through 22

A)	Howard Gardner
B)	David Wechsler
C)	Teresa Amabile
D)	Wallace Lambert
E)	L. Thurstone
F)	J. Berko-Gleason
G)	Mark Tremblay and Douglas Willms
H)	Jacqueline and Martin Brooks
I)	Jean Piaget
J)	Lewis Terman
K)	J. P. Gilford
L)	Charles Spearman
M)	Deanna Kuhn
N)	Ellen Bialystok
O)	Michael Pressley
P)	Alfred Binet
Q)	Ellen Winner
R)	Alfred Binet and Theophile Simon
S)	Carol Mills
T)	William Stern
U)	Robert Sternberg
V)	John Dewey

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