1. Spearman found that scores on individual items of intelligence tests were highly correlated with one another, which suggested to him that there must be ______ involved.
a few different factors
several highly correlated factors
many different factors
one single, primary factor
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2. Which of the following individuals viewed intelligence as composed of many separate mental abilities that operate more or less independently?
Cattell
Spearman
Skinner
Thurstone
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3. In order to achieve the kind of intelligence that Sternberg believes is important, people must learn
more specific skills for more specific situations
practical skills to help them solve real-world problems
to increase their general intellectual ability
more automatic, highly-practiced skills, such as reading
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4. The purpose of the first intelligence tests, developed around the beginning of this century by Alfred Binet, was to
gain a better theoretical understanding of intelligence
help employees determine who to hire for a job
screen Army recruits for officer’s school
identify school children who were mentally retarded
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5. In Binet’s original measurement of intelligence, a child’s mental age is defined as
how old the child actually is in years, months, and days
the number of items passed correctly on the test
the grade level at school the child has passed successfully
the child’s score on the first versions of the IQ test
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6. An individual’s performance on an intelligence test relative to the scores of other individuals is the current definition of ______.
mental age scores
factor scores
IQ
Comparison score
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7. One of the difficulties with the intelligence tests designed by Binet is the concentration of
verbal abilities
nonverbal abilities
performance abilities
social abilities
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8. The result of the Colorado Adoption Project found that the correlation between the measured intelligence of adopted children and that of their adoptive parents ______ over time.
increased
decreased
increased for children and fathers
stayed the same
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9. The Flynn effect is the phenomenon involving
localized increase in IQ scores
localized decreased in IQ scores
worldwide increase in IQ scores
worldwide decrease in IQ scores
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10. In 1912 American psychologist, Henry Goddard, developed a procedure that screened for mental defectives among immigrants to Ellis Island. As a result, the number of immigrants labeled as “inferior”, “degenerate”, or “morons” grew significantly. Goddard was apparently influenced by
the Social Nationalist party in Germany
the Eugenics movement in Great Britain
the Communists in the Soviet Union
the great depression in the United States
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