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- Created by: Psych951
- Created on: 03-05-18 17:12
1. What does IQ represent?
- How steadily your intelligence develops over time
- Mental ability compared to the rest of the population of similar age
- A ratio of your mental age with your chronological age
- Your raw score on an intelligence test
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2. What is a psychometric approach to understanding intelligence?
- Finding correlations between abilities to develop ways to measure intelligence according to psychometric principles
- Mapping the structure of intelligence and understand the competencies underlying intelligence
- Mapping the structure of intelligence rather than focussing on the mental competencies needed
- Understanding specific thought processes underlying the mental competencies of intelligence
3. What is criteria-related validity?
- Test measures the correct psychological construct
- Scores correlate with meaningful standards to make predictions
- Test measures what it claims to measure
- Test measures all skills that underlie the target construct
4. What type of test measures intelligence using novel problems that extend beyond prior learning?
- Theory-based tests
- Achievement test
- Aptitude test
- Weschler test
5. Which of these facts about the intellectually gifted is false?
- Top 1% of population with IQ of 120 or higher
- Often average/just above average general intelligence but excel in one specific skill
- Only a few gifted children retain eminence in adulthood
- May be caused by efficient processing or different thinking styles
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