Intelligence

Given the task of finding students who needed extra help in school, this psychometrician created the concept of mental age.

• Lewis Terman

• Alfred Binet

• Charles Spearman

• Howard Gardner

Which of the following is an intelligence test for adults that is still used today?

• OCEAN

• SAT

• WAIS

• Stanford-Binet

The fact that scores on IQ tests are improving compared to past generations (due to better physical and mental health, technology, and science) is called _________________.

• Reaction range

• Flynn effect

• Savant syndrome

• Intellectual disability

Spearman argued that intelligence could be boiled down to one ability known as

• Spatial Intelligence

• Introverted Intelligence

• General Intelligence

• Extroverted Intelligence

The Flynn effect is the finding that

• intelligence seems to increase with every generation.

• television has decreased intellectual performance.

• linguistic skills decline with age.

• the more times people take a test, the better they tend to score.

Match the following

• This intelligence is skilled at dancing and sports and enjoys creating things with his or her hands

• bodily-kinesthetic intelligence

• This intelligence is able to explain things well and enjoys reading and writing.

• musical intelligence

• This intelligence enjoys singing and playing musical instruments and remembers songs and melodies

• linguistic intelligence

• This intelligence enjoys thinking about abstract ideas and is good at conducting experiments

• logical-mathematical intelligence

Triarchic theory of intelligence talks about which of the following intelligences?

• general, analytical, practical

• analytical, creative, practical

• linguistic, mathematical, general

• creative, linguistic, mathematical

Who proposed the theory of multiple intelligences, which suggests that intelligence is not a single ability but a combination of several distinct types?

• Howard Gardner

• Robert Sternberg

• Alfred Binet

• Charles Spearman

Which type of intelligence, according to Howard Gardner, involves the ability to understand and interact effectively with others?

• Intrapersonal Intelligence

• Interpersonal Intelligence

• Logical-Mathematical Intelligence

• Spatial Intelligence

What is the term for the ability to solve new problems, use logic in new situations, and identify patterns?

• Crystallized Intelligence

• Fluid Intelligence

• Emotional Intelligence

• Practical Intelligence