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____________ is thinking skills and the ability to adapt and learn from life's everyday experiences. |
| | A) | Intelligence |
| | B) | Wisdom |
| | C) | Creativity |
| | D) | Adaptability |
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The purpose of the first intelligence test designed by Alfred Binet and Theophile Simon was to: |
| | A) | identify students who should be placed in special classes. |
| | B) | identify gifted students who should be placed in accelerated training programs. |
| | C) | measure intelligence so that future success could be predicted. |
| | D) | form a basic definition of intelligence and what it comprises. |
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Ashley has a mental age of 13 and a chronological age of 10. Thus her intelligence quotient (IQ) is: |
| | A) | 130. |
| | B) | 100. |
| | C) | 77. |
| | D) | 10. |
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The question, "Why do individuals buy automobile insurance?" would be in which subscale of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised? |
| | A) | Similarities |
| | B) | Comprehension |
| | C) | Information |
| | D) | Performance |
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A primary advantage of group intelligence tests is that they: |
| | A) | allow the examiner to establish rapport with a large number of people. |
| | B) | provide the people taking the test with a sense of group effort. |
| | C) | are economical and convenient to administer. |
| | D) | offer a good supplement to individual testing. |
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In Spearman's two-factor theory of intelligence, "g" refers to: |
| | A) | goal orientation. |
| | B) | general intelligence. |
| | C) | giftedness. |
| | D) | global intelligence. |
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Ariadne is an architect. According to Howard Gardner's theory of intelligence, which type of intelligence would Ariadne have? |
| | A) | spatial |
| | B) | mathematical |
| | C) | kinesthetic |
| | D) | naturalist |
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An advantage of Spectrum classrooms is that they: |
| | A) | enable teachers to identify children's skills that might be missed in a regular classroom. |
| | B) | encourage teachers to focus on and help improve each child's weaknesses. |
| | C) | allow for easy labeling of children so they can be tracked according to their abilities. |
| | D) | allow teachers to evoke intelligence by using specific materials labeled "spatial," "verbal," etc. |
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Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence includes all of the following abilities, EXCEPT: |
| | A) | analytical. |
| | B) | creative. |
| | C) | motivational. |
| | D) | practical. |
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Indira grew up in poverty and first learned to care for herself and her younger brother by selling newspapers and developing "street smarts." Although she never went to school, she has become successful in business. In terms of Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory, which type(s) of intelligence does Indira have? |
| | A) | analytical |
| | B) | creative |
| | C) | practical |
| | D) | all three factors |
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All of the following are criticisms of multiple-intelligence approaches, EXCEPT: |
| | A) | classifying musical skills as a main type of intelligence is off base. |
| | B) | research has not yet been done to support multiple intelligences as the best way to categorize intelligence. |
| | C) | there are outstanding chess players, prizefighters, etc., but we do not refer to chess intelligence, prizefighter intelligence, and so on. |
| | D) | they discourage educators from developing programs that instruct students in multiple domains. |
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The developmental quotient (DQ) is a global developmental score that combines subscores in all of the following domains, EXCEPT: |
| | A) | motor. |
| | B) | language. |
| | C) | physical. |
| | D) | personal-social. |
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The Fagan Test of Infant Intelligence: |
| | A) | estimates intelligence by comparing the amount of time a baby looks at a new object and the amount of time spent looking at a familiar object. |
| | B) | assesses infants' overall development in terms of motor, language, adaptive, and personal-social domains. |
| | C) | has been successful at measuring infant intelligence in industrialized nations, but not in third-world countries. |
| | D) | was the first measure of infant intelligence. |
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With respect to the relation between intelligence tested in infancy and intelligence tested at age 5: |
| | A) | virtually no relationship has been found. |
| | B) | only a modest relationship has been found. |
| | C) | a strong relationship has been found using the Bayley scales, but not with other scales. |
| | D) | children who have high verbal scores in the first 24 months show higher IQ scores later in life. |
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The greatest predictor of intelligence in childhood would be: |
| | A) | habituation and dishabituation. |
| | B) | verbal abilities. |
| | C) | the parents' IQs. |
| | D) | the child's social environment. |
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According to John Horn, in middle age: |
| | A) | crystallized intelligence increases, while fluid intelligence begins to decline. |
| | B) | fluid intelligence increases, while crystallized intelligence begins to decline. |
| | C) | both crystallized and fluid intelligence increase. |
| | D) | both crystallized and fluid intelligence begin to decline. |
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Data from the Seattle Longitudinal Study have shown that the highest level of functioning for four of the six intellectual abilities tested occurred in: |
| | A) | late adolescence. |
| | B) | early adulthood. |
| | C) | middle adulthood. |
| | D) | late adulthood. |
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A review of research methods that assess changes in the adult years suggests that: |
| | A) | longitudinal and cross-sectional studies produce similar results. |
| | B) | longitudinal studies are more likely than cross-sectional studies to show declining abilities with age. |
| | C) | cross-sectional studies are more likely than longitudinal studies to show declining abilities with age. |
| | D) | some abilities seem to show a decline in cross-sectional studies, whereas others show a decline using longitudinal studies. |
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Which task would require wisdom? |
| | A) | remembering a grocery list |
| | B) | braking when a pedestrian steps out in front of your car |
| | C) | helping a son keep his marriage from falling apart |
| | D) | helping a granddaughter with her algebra homework |
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The research on wisdom suggests that: |
| | A) | wisdom involves the ability to use abstract ideas. |
| | B) | although not all old people are wise, wisdom generally comes with age. |
| | C) | older adults who demonstrate wisdom are faster at processing ideas than those who are less wise. |
| | D) | recent research suggests that there are no age differences in wisdom. |
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Criticisms of the research of Jensen (1969, 1998) and Herrnstein and Murray (1994) include all of the following, EXCEPT: |
| | A) | there are serious questions about the ability of IQ tests to measure a person's intelligence accurately. |
| | B) | most investigations of heredity and environment do not include environments that differ radically. |
| | C) | many genetic studies show environment is a fairly weak influence on intelligence. |
| | D) | correlations for IQs of identical twins reared apart are significantly higher than for fraternal twins reared together. |
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The Abecedarian Intervention program has demonstrated that: |
| | A) | environment can have a powerful influence on intelligence. |
| | B) | heredity is the most important factor for influencing intelligence. |
| | C) | the early intellectual gains of children in the program could not be sustained over long periods. |
| | D) | children with IQs below 70 require institutionalization to survive beyond adolescence. |
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Many of the early intelligence tests favored urban, middle-income, White individuals. These tests are considered: |
| | A) | culture-fair. |
| | B) | culture-biased. |
| | C) | culturally differentiating. |
| | D) | normative. |
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Why does it seem impossible to devise a universal, culture-fair intelligence test? |
| | A) | We cannot establish norms for the different populations of people who take the test. |
| | B) | Languages are so different that some languages cannot express what other languages can. |
| | C) | Different cultures appear to encourage the development of different intellectual skills or knowledge. |
| | D) | We are beginning to doubt that IQ tests actually measure intelligence. |
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All of the following are potential problems with IQ tests, EXCEPT: |
| | A) | scores on an IQ test can easily lead to stereotypes. |
| | B) | IQ tests can be used as the sole indicator of a person's competence. |
| | C) | there may be problems in interpreting the meaningfulness of the overall IQ score. |
| | D) | IQ tests can be used to predict how well a student might be expected to perform in school. |
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Everett, a 10-year-old boy, has an IQ of 48 on the Stanford-Binet intelligence test and he has difficulty adapting in his everyday life, but his teachers expect he may be able to support himself as an adult through some type of labor. He would be classified as: |
| | A) | mildly retarded. |
| | B) | moderately retarded. |
| | C) | severely retarded. |
| | D) | profoundly retarded. |
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Information about the causes of mental retardation suggests that: |
| | A) | the causes are primarily organic. |
| | B) | environment is more important than biology. |
| | C) | most retardation is caused by genetic factors. |
| | D) | both biological and environmental factors are involved. |
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Ellen Winner (1996) has described three criteria that characterize gifted children. Which of the following is NOT a criterion? |
| | A) | ingenuity |
| | B) | precocity |
| | C) | marching to their own drummer |
| | D) | a passion to master |
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Hyun-Joo is asked to come up with as many possible uses of a paper clip as possible. This task requires her to use: |
| | A) | verbal comprehension. |
| | B) | convergent thinking. |
| | C) | divergent thinking. |
| | D) | critical thinking. |
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Isaac's parents want to encourage him to become more creative. Which of the following should they AVOID doing? |
| | A) | Encourage Isaac to brainstorm. |
| | B) | Provide Isaac with an environment that stimulates creativity. |
| | C) | Introduce Isaac to creative people. |
| | D) | Encourage Isaac's external motivation. |
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Recent research on creativity has shown that it: |
| | A) | is highly correlated with intelligence. |
| | B) | peaks in adolescence, then declines. |
| | C) | peaks in adulthood, then declines. |
| | D) | peaks somewhere in middle to late adulthood. |
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Which of the following can help you develop the heightened state of pleasure we experience when engaged in absorbing challenges described as "flow" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1995)? |
| | A) | Keep your life structured so you know what to expect. |
| | B) | Wake up in the morning open to whatever will strike you as the "thing to do today." |
| | C) | Take charge of your schedule. |
| | D) | Set a specific time each month to pursue something interesting. |
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