Researchers suggests that the link between creativity and madness is mythical. However, madness can effect a creative person’s
A. Motivation
B. Relationship
C. Product quality
D. Intelligence
Intelligence Psychology MCQs
If Jane’s intelligence quotient is 100,we know that she has a _____________?
A. perfect score on a set of age-related tests.
B. test performance superior to 90% of other children the same age who took the test.
C. mental age typical of children who have the same chronological age.
D. mental age below those of children with the same chronoligical age.
The intelligence test scores of identical twins are
A. lower when they are raised together than when they are raised apart.
B. greater than that for fraternal twins raised together.
C. lower than that for any other blood relatives.
D. the same whether they are reared together or apart.
Which is the most closely related to poverty?
A. metabolic disorders
B. familiar retardation
C. birth injuries
D. fetal damage
Which one of the following assertions is true? Galton’s notion of the normal distribution’ tells us:
A. That if your IQ score is anywhere on the distribution, then you are normal.
B. That as we consider scores increasingly higher or lower than the norm, there will be more and more people registering those scores.
C. That for any of our ‘natural gifts'(physical, temperament or intellectual) there will be an average’ amount of that feature, to which most people approximate.
D. That most people who complete a university degree will be at the lower end of the distribution.
Galton introduced the idea of correlation (or co-relation) and showed which of the following to be true?
A. A correlation of -1 indicates that there is no relationship between the two variables being considered.
B. Correlations should only be used with variables that are normally distributed.
C. If variable A (e.g. height) shows a correlation with variable B (e.g. weight) of +10, then we know that A caused
D. IQ was correlated with job performance.
In the early stage of measuring intelligence, which type of intelligence did Spearman identify as the underlying feature the contributes to performance across a variety of different tasks?
A. Perceptual speed
B. Individual IQ
C. Crystallized intelligence
D. General intelligence (g)
Which is the case? IQ is calculated as:
A. The speed at which we process a piece of information.
B. The ratio of mental age to chronological age.
C. The number of items you get correct on an intelligence test.
D. How intelligent you are compared to an adult of the same gender.
Which one of the following is most likely to be true? A person with an IQ of 100 is:
A. Unlikely to be able to finish high school.
B. Unable to get a driving license.
C. Likely to have trouble completing a university degree.
D. More intelligent than a person with an IQ of 120.
Evidence obtained from measures of reaction time. inspection time and psychological changes suggest that general intelligence has a _______ basis.
A. Biological
B. Social
C. Cognitive
D. Cultural
