Chapter 9

A  Drawing a picture

B  Brushing her teeth

C  Walking in the store

D  Crying when she feels sad

A  culturally unfair

B  standardized

C  commonly biased

D  reliable

A  The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition, is appropriate for testing fluid reasoning only.

B  The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition, is not suitable for children younger than age two.

C  The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition, is less reliable than the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales, Fourth Edition.

D  The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition, is not a valid measure of general intelligence.

A  He colors with blue markers only.

B  He reads chapter books.

C  He plays with other children during snack time.

D  He enjoys spending time outdoors.

A  What year did World War II begin?

B  Which answer choice completes the pattern?

C  How many cents are in the U.S. dollar?

D  Which region of the brain is responsible for language?

A  She is thinking irrationally.

B  She is able to read emotions.

C  She is highly intelligent.

D  She has fragile X syndrome.

A  General intelligence is fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence.

B  Intelligence is a combination of various mental functions.

C  Intelligence is the ability to lead a successful life.

D  General intelligence is the capacity to improve over time.

A  They prefer to spend time alone.

B  They have high naturalist abilities.

C  They are tuned in to their own feelings.

D  They are visual thinkers

A  Minister

B  Medicine man

C  Politician

D  Religious leader

A  Bayesian network

B  Deep Blue

C  AlphaGo

D  Machine learning

A  Temporal lobes

B  Parietal lobes

C  Occipital lobes

D  Frontal lobes

A  They attempt to measure intelligence without being influenced by a person’s verbal skills, cultural background, and educational level, to the greatest extent possible.

B  They are designed to maximize the importance of skills and knowledge that may be more common in some cultures than in others.

C  They are entirely free of cultural influences.

D  They are unhelpful for testing children in the United States who come from poor communities, rural areas, or ethnic minority families.

A  The IQs of low socioeconomic status children may be more dramatically influenced by environmental factors than the IQs of high socioeconomic status children.

B  The IQs of high socioeconomic status children may be more dramatically influenced by environmental factors than the IQs of low socioeconomic status children.

C  Children who are reared by the same mother resemble her in IQ, only if they share her genes.

D  Identical twins who grow up in the same family have highly correlated IQs.

A  Cretinism

B  Phenylketonuria

C  Hydrocephaly

D  Microcephaly

A  Most individuals with mild intellectual disabilities can benefit from carefully structured education.

B  Most individuals with borderline intellectual disabilities display exceptional skills in one or more mental ability.

C  Most individuals with intellectual disabilities require assistance with basic language and communication skills.

D  Most individuals with intellectual disabilities live in institutional settings.

A  A child’s talents are most likely to blossom when he or she is nurtured with education and encouragement.

B  All the gifted children followed by Terman as part of the study became financially successful adults.

C  Adult success is unrelated to personality characteristics in childhood, such as optimism.

D  A high IQ guarantees success, and a lower IQ guarantees failure.

A  intelligence quotient

B  biological age

C  emotional quotient

D  social age

A  Knowledge

B  Visual-spatial processing

C  Fluid reasoning

D  Working memory

A  Multiple aptitude tests

B  Psychometric tests

C  General intelligence tests

D  Special aptitude tests

A  validity

B  aptitude

C  intelligence

D  reliability