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Studies have found a stronger relationship between IQ scores of adopted children and their ________ parents than with their ________ parents when socioeconomic status is equal. |
biological; adoptive |
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The first widely influential theory of intelligence was proposed in 1904 by: |
Charles Spearman |
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A common factor in low test scores is a tendency for some students to: |
rush through a test without analyzing each question |
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There is a correlation of ________ for identical twins who were separated at birth and reared apart. |
0.72 |
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While ________ believed that intelligence could be represented by a single score, ________ felt that it could best be represented through multiple scores of various abilities. |
Spearman; Thurstone |
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Approximately ________ percent of IQ scores will fall between 70 and 130. |
95 |
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"Intelligence consists of what is measured on intelligence tests." This may be characterized as a/an: |
operational definition |
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Paul achieved a score of 85 on the WAIS. Approximately ________ percent of all who take WAIS will score higher than Paul. |
85 |
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Sternberg compared the conceptions of intelligence of laypersons with experts and found that: |
both agreed that verbal and problem-solving ability are attributes of intelligence. |
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Thurstone, Guilford, and Spearman's approaches to intelligence served the purpose of: |
providing logical models of intelligence viewing intelligence as being comprised of many independent abilities. a and c only |
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A major problem with adoption studies is that: |
it is difficult to determine the degree of difference between the adoptive home environment and the biological parents' environment |
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Gardner would argue that dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov demonstrates superior ________ intelligence. |
Bodily kinesthetic |
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The major problem with most attempts to define intelligence is that: |
the descriptions are ambiguous. they lack operational definitions. the concepts cannot be precisely measured. *all of the above |
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Louis Thurstone suggested that there are ________ primary abilities. |
seven |
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________ advocates that the concept of intelligence be broadened to include a number of mental abilities that fall outside the realm of what have been labeled traditionally as intelligence. |
Gardner |
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The three major intellectual functions identified by Guilford include: |
mental operations, task content, and task product |
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Sternberg found that laypersons' and experts' views of intelligence: |
were very similar |
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Arthur Jensen found evidence that as rural disadvantaged black children between the ages of five and sixteen grew older, they exhibited: |
a substantial decline in IQ points |
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A method of assessing test reliability which involves administering two or more forms of the same test is ________ reliability. |
alternate-form |
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Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are highly intelligent and so are their two children. Their family supports the view that ________ determines intelligence |
neither environment nor genetics alone |