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Miguel was diagnosed as being intellectually disabled at a very early age. It was predicted that he would be able to develop vocal communication with rigorous teaching and attention, but that he would require around-the-clock supervision and little benefit would be gained from schooling. Miguel would be classified as havinga____ intellectual disability. ​


A) mild
B) moderate
C) severe
D) profound

E) B) and D)
F) All of the above

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Sierra is diagnosed as being intellectually disabled. She can manage most of her personal needs, has a job shredding paper documents, and knows which bus line to take to her job. However, Sierra needs help with managing money, scheduling doctor's appointments, and communicating with her boss. Sierra would be classified as having a____ intellectual disability. ​


A) mild
B) moderate
C) severe
D) profound

E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

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Iman, a fifth-grade teacher, believes it is important to determine the intelligence of each of her students. However, she doesn't believe that traditional tests provide an accurate description of abilities such as interpersonal communication, music, or athleticism. What approach to intelligence would Iman most likely agree with? ​


A) information-processing
B) triarchic
C) psychometric
D) multiple intelligences

E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

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Which example lends the strongest support to an environmental explanation of intelligence? ​


A) Bright children take better advantage of their environmental resources.
B) Siblings raised in different homes have IQs of 100 to 120. ​
C) Children with intellectual disabilities who are moved from institutions into adoptive homes have an average gain of 30 IQ points.
D) Minority groups in the United States have a mean IQ that is 15 points below the mean of the majority.

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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Psychologist Raymond Cattell would say that playing a game involving inductive and deductive reasoning ability, such as chess, primarily requires ____. He also would say that taking a test of geographical knowledge would primarily involve ____. ​


A) divergent thinking; parallel distributed processing
B) crystallized intelligence; fluid intelligence
C) fluid intelligence; crystallized intelligence
D) parallel distributed processing; divergent thinking

E) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

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You believe that elephants have intelligence and that this intelligence increases as elephants get older. You test your hypothesis by observing the behaviors of the same group of elephants at birth and then at five-year intervals. What type of study is this? ​


A) developmental
B) longitudinal
C) cross-sectional
D) experimental

E) A) and D)
F) A) and B)

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You are baffled about how to untangle the influence of heredity and environment on intelligence. According to your text, you should ____. ​


A) do a longitudinal study where you give people IQ tests every two years from infancy to early adulthood
B) calculate the IQ of parents and their offspring, which would show the influence of the environment
C) measure and compare the IQs of identical twins, of fraternal twins, and of siblings reared either together or separately
D) map the genes responsible for intelligence

E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

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Bailey, a boy who displays a mild intellectual disability, is struggling with a word problem about a car driving from one point to another. The problem is illustrated with a diagram of the car's route. Which of the following is the most likely reason for Bailey's difficulty with the problem? ​


A) Bailey is confused by the diagram.
B) Bailey cannot keep all the facts in his short-term memory long enough to figure out the problem.
C) Bailey does not know how to generalize the strategies he has learned for solving this kind of math problem to the particular problem before him.
D) Bailey, like most children with mild intellectual disabilities, has poor iconic memory.

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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Amber and Lisa are identical twins. They were separated at birth and raised to adulthood in completely different families without contact with one another. Greg and James are fraternal twins separated at birth and raised to adulthood in completely different families without contact with one another. Based only on this information, you would expect the difference in adult IQ scores between Lisa and Amber to be ____the difference between Greg and James. ​


A) greater than
B) similar to
C) less than
D) identical to

E) A) and C)
F) A) and D)

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Kiana scored in the 90th percentile on a standardized intelligence test. Based on this information, Kiana may have better potential than most of her classmates for which types of jobs? ​


A) complex managerial jobs
B) jobs requiring creative problem solving and the generation of multiple hypotheses about events
C) jobs involving an excellent understanding of the feelings of others
D) jobs that demand precise and highly coordinated physical skills

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Which statement is false regarding intelligence tests? ​


A) IQ scores obtained before the age of seven typically correlate highly with scores on IQ tests given later.
B) For teenagers and adults, the statistical reliability of IQ tests is high.
C) IQ tests seem to be most valid for assessing aspects of intelligence that are related to schoolwork.
D) Evidence shows that employees who score high on tests of verbal and mathematical reasoning tend to perform better on the job.

E) A) and C)
F) C) and D)

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An IQ test to World War I military recruitsincluded a scale that relied more heavily on pictures and acting out instructions. Results revealed that 47 percent of the men tested had a mental age of thirteen or less. Why? ​


A) The men were mentally defective.
B) The test was culturally biased.
C) The test required more creativity than the Alpha test
D) Goddard tested the men one at a time and discriminated against black recruits.

E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

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The R&M test claims to be a test without cultural bias-anyone from any cultural background would be equally advantaged or disadvantaged on the test. The R&M test is a(n) ____test. ​


A) culture-fair
B) individualist culture
C) culture-adapted
D) collectivist culture

E) C) and D)
F) None of the above

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Nora is conducting research on emotional intelligence. In designing her study, Nora plans to follow several cohorts across a ten-year time span. She will select individuals initially from four agegroups: ten-year-olds, twenty-year-olds, thirty-year-olds, and forty-year-olds. She will follow these cohorts over ten years and gather qualitative and quantitative data. Nora's study is known as a ____. ​


A) cross-sequential with resampling study
B) cross-sectional study
C) longitudinal study
D) correlational research project

E) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

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Fiona and Michael are discussing how best to measure intelligence. Fiona says that while she acknowledges that traditional IQ tests are useful, it is important to also include questions that measure how well people can adapt to new situations and their ability to create something new, along with how well people can apply their intelligence to everyday problems. Michael disagrees and says that only traditional IQ tests should be used because intelligence is one general trait, the g factor. Fiona is an advocate for the ____theory, and Michael is an advocate for the ____theory. ​


A) psychometric; triarchic
B) triarchic; psychometric
C) psychometric; information-processing
D) triarchic; multiple intelligences

E) A) and C)
F) None of the above

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Galya is from Russia and is given an intelligence test when she arrives in the United States. If the administrator of the test is conscious of the fact that Galya is from another culture, the test will be composed of ____. ​


A) easy vocabulary words
B) spelling items
C) pattern recognition items
D) story problems

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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A study on cognitive abilities compared data collected simultaneously from people of different ages. A major confounding variable in this type of study is ____. ​


A) the typically high attrition rate
B) the Hawthorne effect
C) that there is no control group
D) that experiential differences might account for IQ score differences

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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Lewis Terman and the other psychologists who adopted IQ tests for use in the United States in the early 1900s believed that intelligence is ____. ​


A) solely influenced by the environment
B) fixed and inherited
C) influenced by the reaction range
D) nonexistent

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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In a study, math-proficient women are randomly divided into two groups. The first group is told that men usually do better on the type of math test the women are about to take. The second group is not told anything. Which outcome would you expect? ​


A) The second group did worse than the first.
B) The second group did better than the first.
C) There was no meaningful difference between the performances of the two groups.
D) The first group did better than the second but not as well as men who took the test.

E) A) and C)
F) B) and D)

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As people over sixty-five years old grow older, their crystallized intelligence will ____and their fluid intelligence will ____. ​


A) increase; increase
B) increase; decrease
C) decrease; increase
D) decrease; decrease

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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