Intelligence controversy

How do modern psychologists typically define intelligence?

• the ability to get high scores on tests such as the SAT, ACT, or all important AP Exams

• the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new experiences

• the ability to get good grades in school

• the ability to encode, store, and retrieve large amounts of information when called upon to do so

A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie a person's total score is called

• g-factor

• factor analysis

• intelligence

• correlation

Thurstone was successful in proving that Spearman's idea of a g-factor was wrong.

• True

• False

Whose three theories of intelligence involve multiple types of intelligence (not just one general type)?

• Spearman, Thurstone & Sternberg

• Thurstone, Gardner & Sternberg

• Spearman, Thurstone & Gardner

• Spearman, Gardner & Sternberg

Most modern intelligence tests measure several factors, including creativity.

• True

• False

Emotional intelligence includes:

• The ability to use your intelligence instead of your emotions

• Knowing the definitions of a lot of different emotions

• The ability to use your emotions instead of your intelligence

• The ability to perceive, understand, manage, & use emotions

Who came up with the term Eugenics?

• Charles Spearman

• Howard Gardner

• Francis Galton

• Charles Darwin

Which of the following is NOT true of Alfred Binet?

• He believed his test could measure a child's current abilities, helping schools to identify which kids needed extra help

• He was worried that his test would be used to discriminate against people by labeling some kids as "lost causes" and limiting their opportunities

• He believed that intelligence was hereditary and fixed

• He worked with Theodore Simon to devise a test to ascertain a child's "mental age"

What is the formula for IQ (Intelligence Quotient)?

• IQ = Mental Age/Chronological Age x 100

• IQ = Mental Age + 100

• IQ = Chronological Age/Mental Age x 100

• IQ = Chronological Age + Mental Age x 100

Who believed that intelligence testing could facilitate the eugenics movement and wanted to encourage people with high IQs to have kids while discouraging (or forcibly sterilizing) people with low IQs?

• Charles Darwin, Charles Spearman, Alfred Binet

• Robert Thurstone, Alfred Binet, Howard Gardner

• Francis Galton, Lewis Terman, Nazis

• Alfred Binet, Howard Gardner, Robert Sternberg