Test 4 Review

Those who define intelligence as academic aptitude are most likely to criticize

• Binet's concept of mental age

• Spearman's concept of general intelligence

• Sternberg's concept of analytical intelligence

• Gardner's concept of multiple intelligences

A business setting in which employees have frequent opportunities to do what they do best and perceive that they are part of something important promotes

• 360-degree-feedback

• employee engagement

• unstructured interviews

• implementation intentions

Kevin punches his older sibling, who is constantly irritating him. People from East Asian cultures would be more likely than people from Western cultures to explain Kevin's behavior in terms of

• the stressful situation

• hostile intentions

• a lack of self-control

• an enduring personality trait

Intelligence scores tend to differ the most between

• identical twins raised apart

• identical twins raised together

• fraternal twins raised together

• non-twin siblings raised together

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Personnel psychologists are most likely to be involved in

• designing optimum work environments

• facilitating organizational change

• analyzing job content

• developing systems technologies

Which of the following is generally the poorest predictor of future job performance?

• aptitude tests

• unstructured interviews

• job knowledge tests

• simulated job performance exams

The characteristics of savant syndrome most directly suggest that intelligence is

• unpredictable and unmeasurable

• a culturally constructed concept

• a diverse set of distinct abilities

• dependent upon the speed of cognitive processing

Some countries exhibit a gender gap in mathematical abilities while others do not. This best illustrates that mental abilities are

• socially influenced

• genetic

• stable

• polygenetic

Dr. Michaud's research suggests that approximately 40% of the variation in SAT scores among a large group of high schoolers can be attributed to genetic differences. This 40% figure represents an assessment of

• general intelligence

• heritability

• the family-environment effect

• creative intelligence

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The fundamental attribution error is likely to lead observers to attribute a stranger's

• friendliness to social role requirements

• act of kindness to a compassionate personality

• criminal behavior to a poor education

• lack of employment to a weak economy