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The psychometric approach to intelligence is what?
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Testing
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Whose model of intelligence consisted of "seven primary mental abilities?
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Louis Thurstone
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What is Fluid Intelligence?
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Not taught and relatively culture free.
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The modern general consensus concerning intelligence is what?
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There are a few broad dimensions of intelligence that can be found in factor analyses
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One common critism of the psychometric approach to intelligence is what?
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Focus on a single IQ score
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Who would have the highest IQ?
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Tom,who is 10-years-old and who has a mental age of 15.
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The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV) test differs from the Stanford-Binet test because only the WISC-IV ?
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Has separate scores for verbal and performance abilities.
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If the scores from an intelligence test are normally distributed, then you would predict that the largest number of people would receive an IQ score of what on the test?
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100
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Cleopatra has an outstanding sense of her own feelings. This ability is best associated with Gardner's what type of intelligence?
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Intrapersonal
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The componential subtheory focuses exclusively on what components?
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Information-processing
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What is not one of Sternberg's subtheories of intelligence?
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Referential, but componential, experiential and contextual
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The production of ideas that are original and meaningful are both defining characteristics of what?
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Creativity
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What is on the scales of Bayley Scales of Infat Development?
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Behavioral, mental and motor
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Children from impoverished environments may show progressively lower IQ scores over time, a phenomenon called what?
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Cumulative-deficit hypothesis
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The correlation between adolescents' IQ scores and their grades is closest to what?
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+.5
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As a general pattern, what tends to have the lowest IQs?
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Manual laborers
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What can we conclude about intellectual functioning across the life span?
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The speed with which someone processes information is related to intellectual performance.
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Research on wisdom suggests what?
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Only adults with expertise or experience display wisdom.
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The concept of stereotypic threat is most often used to explain the lower IQ scores found in what?
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African Americans
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Which is the most common form of mental retardation?
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Cultural-familial retardation
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Crystallized intelligence is the ability to use one's mind actively to solve novel problems.
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False
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According to Sternberg, in order to know how intelligently someone performs a task, you must know how familiar the person is with the task.
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True
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IQ scores in high school are of college students.very good predictors
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False
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The Flynn Effect states that racial differences in IQ scores are likely due to genetic differences.
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False
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According to Horn and Cattell, what intelligence is the ability to use your active mind to solve novel problems.
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Fluid
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Gardner would describe a person with a great understanding of their own inner feelings as having a high level of what intelligence?
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Intrapersonal
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What thinking involves generating a variety of solutions when there is no one correct answer to a problem.
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Divergent
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The fact that negative environmental effects can accumulate over time and can result in losses in IQ is called what hypothesis?
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Cumulative-deficit
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________ retardation tends to be mild and appears to be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors.
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Cultural-familial
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