Freida has difficulty writing reports in school.  She is clear about what she wants to write, but she

sometimes leaves letters out of words or switches around the order of words, so that the sentences can become meaningless.  Her teacher has requested that she be tested for a learning disability known as

The research of Skeels (1938) showed that the IQs of children who were thought to be mentally retarded

could be raised by putting them in a stimulating environment. This research is supportive of the concept(s) of

As young adults grow older, their crystallized intelligence will _____ and their fluid intelligence will

_____.  However, after 65 years of age, their crystallized intelligence will _____ and their fluid intelligence will _____.

Cognitive ability is

Intelligence is

The definition of intelligence includes

Many World War I recruits were from isolated rural areas and did not have a formal education or even

know how to read.  In order to assess such recruits’ intelligence, the U.S. Armed Forces gave them the ______ test.

Alfred Binet developed his intelligence test to

According to Terman’s concept of intelligence quotient (IQ), a ten-year-old child with an IQ of 50 has

Lewis Terman and the other psychologists who adopted IQ tests for use in the United States in the early

 1900s believed that intelligence is

At Stanford University, Louis Terman changed Binet’s test for children several ways.  Which of the

 following is not one of changes Terman made?

Norms for a new test of mental ability were obtained from a large sample of the general population. The

mean of the test was set to 100 and the standard deviation was 15. Approximately what percentage of the population would fall within the range bounded by scores of 85 and 115?

Researchers are in the process of developing a new college entrance exam. They want to ensure that

wherever the test is given, it will be administered, scored, and interpreted in the same manner. In other words, the researchers are concerned with

Jeremy has a score of 115 on an IQ test that can be compared to the scores of hundreds of other people

 who took the same test. The capability to compare scores statistically is a function of

Dr. Sandifer administers her test to a large group of high school seniors. She then administers the same

test two weeks later to the same group and finds a high correlation between the first and second scores. This means that her test

Katrina received a 740 on her Math SAT. She decided to take the SAT again and received a 720. The

 reason the scores are so similar is because the SAT has high

If a test is ______________ , it will also be ______________.

Which of the following statements is false?

Nowhere State University depends primarily on shoe size, rather than the SAT, for admissions

purposes. Their dropout rate is rather high. Shoe size is probably not an effective predictor of success in college because it lacks

Which of the following is not a valid criticism of intelligence tests?

Which of the following is still a problem faced by modern IQ tests?

If intelligence were determined solely by heredity, the correlation of the IQ scores of identical twins

            would be

Based upon research studies of college students, what percentage of the students taking this exam could

            be expected to be suffering from some test anxiety?

Dana is excellent in Trivial Pursuit, a game that measures knowledge gained over a lifetime. Dana’s

 success in Trivial Pursuit is a reflection of her ______  intelligence.

Individuals with outstanding ability in a narrowly defined skill provide evidence in support of the

_____________ theory of intelligence.

Dr. Finkelstein measured five intellectual capacities of a group of people when they were two, ten,

 twenty, thirty, and fifty years of age. She was conducting a

Moses is getting old. What is most likely to remain stable and not decline in the near future?

According to Therisa Amabile, which of the following is not one of several characteristics shared by

 people who are considered creative?

An advertising firm’s clients complain that the firm’s associates are dull and uncreative. In order to

 determine if the associates truly are uncreative, which type of test should they be given?

According to your textbook, the intellectual performance of retarded children is limited because they

 are deficient in

Terman’s longitudinal study of people with extremely high IQs found that nearly all of them

A dyslexic child would probably have difficulty

Jimmy has trouble understanding what his mother is saying when she speaks to him.  He also has

 trouble recalling the appropriate words in order to create sentences.  Jimmy is suffering from

According to Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, a community living near the Arctic Circle

500 years ago without any contact with other societies was likely to have ascribed the characteristic of intelligence to someone who

One night, on your first car trip in rural central Illinois, you come to an intersection with no road signs. As

you try to decide which way to go, you notice a glow at the end of one road. You reason that a town’s lights might make a glow like that, so you turn that way. The second time you take the same trip, you know to turn the same way. On the first trip you used ______________ , while on the second trip you used ______________.

When Avena was 9 years old she took the WISC, and her IQ was estimated to be 106. Avena, who is now

27, took the WAIS, and her IQ was estimated to be 110. Avena’s IQ scores indicate that the Weschler tests have good ___________ reliability.

Bob, a 10th grader, took a test that measured his potential for college success.  Jill, another 10th grader,

took a test on the math chapter that had just been covered in class.  Bob most likely took an ______ test and Jill most likely took an ______ test.

When Binet set out to create a psychometric instrument to assess individual differences, he wanted to create

 a test to

Bill and Ted had an excellent time-travel adventure back to 1916. In order to come back to the present, Bill

(who is a little below average in intelligence) needs a score of 115 on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test.  Bill has to convince Professor Terman that he is ______ than he actually is, because the Stanford-Binet IQ was calculated as ______.

An IQ score of 100 or less on the WAIS is achieved by about _ % of the test takers in any particular age

The Rosenthal study of teacher expectations, in which several randomly chosen children were described to

            their teachers as “potential bloomers,” showed that teachers

Shavonne, an elementary school teacher, was told that some of her students scored very high on a

scholastic aptitude test. Actually, these “high aptitude” students were chosen randomly, regardless of ability. During the next year of school, these students’ IQ scores increased more than the scores of other students who were in Shavonne’s class.  According to the textbook, the most likely explanation for these students’ IQ gain is