The measured difference in IQ between African Americans and white Americans is most likely to be due to which one of the following factors?
A. Bias in testing.
B. Genetics.
C. Environmental differences.
D. Lack of effort.
Intelligence Psychology MCQs
What explanations have been given to challenge inaccurate, calm that differences in IQ scores between black and white Americans are due to genetic differences in intelligence?
A. Disadvantaged social groups are treated differently
B. Socio-economic status provides different oppurtunities
C. IQ test are biased against minority groups
D. all of the above
Estimates of heritability for intelligence range between_________.
A. 25% to 35%
B. 50% to 60%
C. 50% to 80%
D. 0% to 100%
Which are the most widely used individual tests of intelligence?
A. Wechsler tests
B. Stanford-Binet tests
C. IQ tests
D. Reaction time tests
Research on intelligence and brain functioning that highly intelligent children demonstrate_______than their less intelligent counterparts.
A. smaller synaptic gaps
B. longer axons
C. higher dopamine levels
D. greater neural plasticity
Sameena is reading about the history of IQ testing. She finds that Binet’s original intelligence test did not:
A. deal with the concept of mental age vs. chronological age.
B. include items for adults.
C. attempt to test the ability to reason.
D. assume that children’s ability increased with age.
Terman’s longitudinal study of people with extremely high IQs found that nearly all of them:
A. dropped out of high school and became entrepreneurs.
B. tended to live just as long as their lower IQ score counterparts.
C. had higher than average physical and mental health
D. became world-famous inventors, writers, artists, etc.
The definition of intelligence includes:
A. the ability to arrive at innovative solutions to problems.
B. adapting to different environments
C. knowledge of one’s culture.
D. the ability to think or reason abstracity.
Generating the single correct answer to an intelligence test illustrates:
A. the stereotype threat.
B. standardization.
C. reliability.
D. convergent thinking
When interpreting the results from the final exam, Professor Hisham noticed that the students who had test from A scored significantly higher than those who had test from B. Professor Hisham concluded that the final exam was low on:
A. alternate-from reliability
B. split-half reliability.
C. content validity.
D. criterion reliability.
