AP Psych (Intelligence and Testing)

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Who would have been most enthusiastic about the value of a single intelligence test score as an index of an individual's mental capacities?

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Spearman

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Those who score above average on tests of mathematical aptitude are also likely to score above average on tests of verbal aptitude. According to Spearman, this best illustrates the importance of:

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the g factor

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These tests attempt to predict the test takers future performance. Options: Aptitude, Achievement, Assessment, Standardized

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Aptitude

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What percent of the population has an IQ score between 70 and 130?

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96

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A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of test items that seem to tap a common ability is called

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factor analysis

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Although Nicole scored well above average on the SAT, she frequently loses her temper and needlessly antagonizes even her best friends. Her behavior best illustrates a low level of:

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emotional intelligence

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Binet and Terman would have been most likely to disagree about the: possibility of predicting people's academic success from intelligence scores, need to standardize intelligence tests, extent to which intelligence is determined by heredity, definition of mental age

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extent to which intelligence is determined by heredity

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A 6-year-old who responded to the Stanford-Binet with the proficiency typical of an average 8-year-old was said to have an IQ of:

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133

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When a person's test performance can be compared with that of a representative and pretested sample of people, the test is said to be

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standardized

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When researchers have subjects take two halves of a single test (split-half) or have them take the same test twice (test-retest), they are assessing the test's ____ .

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reliability