Chapter 9

A  Walking in the store

B  Brushing her teeth

C  Drawing a picture

D  Crying when she feels sad

A  culturally unfair

B  commonly biased

C  standardized

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 less reliable than the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales, Fourth Edition.

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

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 enjoys spending time outdoors.

C  He reads chapter books.

D  He plays with other children during snack time.

A  Which region of the brain is responsible for language?

B  What year did World War II begin?

C  Which answer choice completes the pattern?

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

A  She is thinking irrationally.

B  She is able to read emotions.

C  She is highly intelligent.

D  She has fragile X syndrome.

A  Intelligence is the ability to lead a successful life.

B  General intelligence is fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence.

C  General intelligence is the capacity to improve over time.

D  Intelligence is a combination of various mental functions.

A  They have high naturalist abilities.

B  They are visual thinkers

C  They prefer to spend time alone.

D  They are tuned in to their own feelings.

A  Medicine man

B  Minister

C  Religious leader

D  Politician

A  Machine learning

B  Deep Blue

C  Bayesian network

D  AlphaGo

A  Temporal lobes

B  Occipital lobes

C  Parietal lobes

D  Frontal lobes

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

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

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

D  They are entirely free of cultural influences.

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

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

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

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

A  Hydrocephaly

B  Phenylketonuria

C  Microcephaly

D  Cretinism

A  Most individuals with intellectual disabilities live in institutional settings.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A  biological age

B  intelligence quotient

C  social age

D  emotional quotient

A  Fluid reasoning

B  Working memory

C  Knowledge

D  Visual-spatial processing

A  General intelligence tests

B  Multiple aptitude tests

C  Special aptitude tests

D  Psychometric tests

A  aptitude

B  intelligence

C  validity

D  reliability