UNBC PSYC 102 Midterm 1 Quiz Questions Ch 9-11, Questions with answers, Rated A. 2022/2023

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UNBC PSYC 102 Midterm 1 Quiz Questions Ch 9-11, Questions with answers, Rated A. 2022/2023 What is the term that describes the age corresponding to the average individual's performance on an inte... lligence test? - ✔✔mental age Which test is most commonly administered to assess intelligence in adults? - ✔✔WAIS - Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale When we fear that we may confirm a negative stereotype about the group to which we belong, we are experiencing the feeling of __________. - ✔✔stereotype threat Although IQ tests assess how efficiently we process information, they do not measure our ability to process information scientifically. For instance, measures of IQ barely correlate with measures of __________. - ✔✔confirmation bias Environmental influences on intelligence exist, such as poverty, malnutrition, or exposure to lead. However, it is often difficult to disentangle the effects of such influences. Why is that? - ✔✔Environmental factors, such as poverty, malnutrition, or exposure to lead, tend to be correlated with one another. The term "progressive" in Raven's Progressive Matrices indicates that __________. - ✔✔test items start off easy and increase in difficulty The extent to which genetics influences the variability of a trait for members of a particular group is called __________ heritability. - ✔✔within-group heritability When Robert Zajonc released his findings in the mid-1970s that showed that later-born children have lower IQs than earlier-born children, he failed to take into account that __________. - ✔✔lower-IQ parents tend to have more children than higher-IQ parents Although it is a complicated relationship, brain volume (or "size," as measured by MRI) does correlate with intelligence (as measured by performance on intellectual tasks). What is the typical range of those correlations? - ✔✔0.30 to 0.40 Two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling said that to be creative, we first need to come up with lots of ideas and then toss out all the bad ones. This is a good way to describe __________ thinking. - ✔✔convergent Which of the following findings is one of the lines of evidence suggesting that schooling has a causal influence on intelligence? - ✔✔Dropouts have lower IQs later in life than graduates, even if they started out with the same IQ Which term refers to an early 20th-century movement to encourage people with "good genes" to have more children and to stop those with "bad genes" from doing so? - ✔✔eugenics According to Sternberg's triarchic model, which type of intelligence do we use when we apply our "street smarts" to size someone up or get ahead in a job? - ✔✔practical intelligence When computing adult intelligence, most modern intelligence researchers use a statistical measure of variability to determine the __________, which expresses individual results in relation to the norms for that age group. - ✔✔deviation IQ Data collected by the Educational Testing Service was analyzed and researchers found a(n) __________ correlation between SAT scores and IQ as measured by the Raven's Progressive Matrices and other tests. - ✔✔high correlation Intellectual disability is defined by three criteria: Onset before adulthood, IQ below approximately 70, and __________. - ✔✔inadequate adaptive functioning Sir Francis Galton conducted extensive research to determine whether __________ correlated to higher intelligence. - ✔✔having better sensory capacities such as exceptional vision or hearing Psychologists have found that __________ is easier to identify than define. - ✔✔creativity According to Howard Gardner's model of __________, someone with interpersonal intelligence would be better able to understand other people and interact with them effectively. - ✔✔multiple intelligences An important indicator of an IQ test's __________ is its ability to forecast or predict future outcomes. - ✔✔validity Investigations of other dimensions of intellect reveal that measures of intelligence are only moderately correlated with measures of __________. - ✔✔wisdom Intelligence tests that rely on abstract-reasoning items rather than language-based questions are considered to be __________. - ✔✔culture-fair To answer specific questions by using accumulated knowledge of the world acquired over time, we rely on our __________. - ✔✔crystallized intelligence The tendency to judge the validity of an idea by our emotional reaction to it, such as the way many people feel when discussing IQ differences between people of different sexes or races, is called "emotional reasoning" or the __________. - ✔✔affect heurisitc Lewis Terman studied a group of intellectually gifted children over many decades. What was one of the major conclusions from that study (that also debunked a popular myth)? - ✔✔No substantial link existed between genius and madness. Research has refuted the idea that parental divorce causes children to act out by breaking rules, defying authority, and committing crimes. Which term best characterizes these kinds of actions? - ✔✔externalizing behaviours Roger and his sister, Susan, were traumatized as children when they witnessed their mother being attacked and killed by an invader in their home. Nevertheless, they have both grown up to be well-adjusted, successful adults. What do the cases of Roger and Susan illustrate? - ✔✔reilience [Show More]

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