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- A. Lack of personal experience with the problem
- B. Belief the problem is preventable by individual action
- C. Belief the problem will not appear in the future if it has not yet appeared
- D. Belief that parents' health is the sole determinant of their health problems
- E. Belief that the problems are infrequentDiscover Faith Communities
Explanation: Unrealistic optimism is encouraged by limited personal experience, beliefs in personal control or prevention, and the belief that an event…
Correct answer: Belief that parents' health is the sole determinant of their health problems- A. IQ
- B. Special
- C. Multiple
- D. General
Explanation: General intelligence tests sample several mental abilities rather than measuring one narrow skill.
Correct answer: General- A. older; (mental age/chronological age 10
- B. younger; (mental age/chronological age 100
- C. older; (chronological age/mental age 10
- D. younger; (chronological age/mental age 10
Explanation: The Stanford-Binet IQ was traditionally calculated as mental age divided by chronological age, multiplied by 100.
Correct answer: younger; (mental age/chronological age 100- A. the g factor.
- B. heritability.
- C. the Flynn effect
- D. intrinsic motivation.
Explanation: The Flynn effect is the observed rise in average intelligence-test scores across successive generations, shown by comparing older and…
Correct answer: the Flynn effect- A. the heritability of intelligence is very high.
- B. the reliability of intelligence test is close to zero.
- C. numerical scores of intelligence serve to dehumanize individuals.
- D. test performance is influenced by cultural experiences
Explanation: Intelligence-test performance is influenced by cultural experiences, including language, schooling, and familiarity with test content…
Correct answer: test performance is influenced by cultural experiences- A. intelligence
- B. standardization.
- C. divergent thinking.
- D. inductive reasoning.
Explanation: Intelligence is the broad ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and adapt knowledge to new situations.
Correct answer: intelligence- A. Unlikely to be able to finish high school.
- B. Unable to get a driving license.
- C. Likely to have trouble completing a university degree.
- D. More intelligent than a person with an IQ of 120.
Explanation: An IQ of 100 is average, so the person would usually manage ordinary schooling and everyday tasks.
Correct answer: Likely to have trouble completing a university degree.- A. The speed at which we process a piece of information.
- B. The ratio of mental age to chronological age.
- C. The number of items you get correct on an intelligence test.
- D. How intelligent you are compared to an adult of the same gender.
Explanation: In the original mental-age system, IQ was calculated as mental age divided by chronological age, multiplied by 100.
Correct answer: The ratio of mental age to chronological age.489. Which one of the following assertions is true? Galton's notion of the normal distribution' tells us:
- A. That if your IQ score is anywhere on the distribution, then you are normal.
- B. That as we consider scores increasingly higher or lower than the norm, there will be more and more people registering those scores.
- C. That for any of our 'natural gifts'(physical, temperament or intellectual) there will be an average' amount of that feature, to which most people approximate.
- D. That most people who complete a university degree will be at the lower end of the distribution.
Explanation: A normal distribution places most people near the average, with progressively fewer people as scores move toward either extreme.
Correct answer: That for any of our 'natural gifts'(physical, temperament or intellectual) there will be an average' amount of that feature, to which most people approximate.- A. lower when they are raised together than when they are raised apart.
- B. greater than that for fraternal twins raised together.
- C. lower than that for any other blood relatives.
- D. the same whether they are reared together or apart.Education
Explanation: Identical twins share nearly all of their genes, so their intelligence scores generally correlate more strongly than those of fraternal…
Correct answer: greater than that for fraternal twins raised together.- A. perfect score on a set of age-related tests.
- B. test performance superior to 90% of other children the same age who took the test.
- C. mental age typical of children who have the same chronological age.
- D. mental age below those of children with the same chronoligical age.World Current Affairs
Explanation: Under the traditional IQ formula, an IQ of 100 means mental age and chronological age are equal because the ratio is 1.00.
Correct answer: mental age typical of children who have the same chronological age.- A. dropped out of high school and became entrepreneurs.
- B. tended to live just as long as their lower IQ score counterparts.
- C. had higher than average physical and mental health
- D. became world-famous inventors, writers, artists, etc.
Explanation: Terman’s study of gifted individuals found that high intelligence was generally associated with better-than-average physical and mental…
Correct answer: had higher than average physical and mental health- A. 25% to 35%
- B. 50% to 60%
- C. 50% to 80%
- D. 0% to 100%
Explanation: Intelligence has a substantial genetic component, but heritability varies with age, population, and environment; commonly cited estimates…
Correct answer: 50% to 80%- A. Spearman's belief in a general intelligence or g, factor.
- B. Cantor and Kihlstrom's distinction between academic and social intelligence.
- C. Eysenck's idea that intelligence is linked to information processing speed.
- D. Gardner's argument for multiple intelligences.
Explanation: Savant syndrome involves an exceptional ability in one area alongside broader limitations, which supports Gardner’s view that intelligence…
Correct answer: Gardner's argument for multiple intelligences.- A. creation of special education programs for intellectually inferior children.
- B. use of factor analysis for identification of various types of intelligence.
- C. federal programs, such as Head Start, to assist students from poverty areas.
- D. selective breeding of highly intelligent people.
Explanation: Eugenics applied heredity ideas to human population improvement and advocated encouraging reproduction among supposedly desirable groups…
Correct answer: selective breeding of highly intelligent people.- A. Thurstone
- B. Sternberg
- C. Gardner
- D. Spearman
Explanation: Spearman proposed a general intelligence factor, or g, underlying performance across different mental tasks, making him the strongest…
Correct answer: Spearman- A. common hereditary factors.
- B. common environmental factors.
- C. genetic effects.
- D. effects of intrauterine environment.
Explanation: Fraternal twins are genetically no more alike than ordinary siblings, so their greater similarity in intelligence points to shared…
Correct answer: common environmental factors.- A. Cloud be answered an average child of that age.
- B. Measured rote learning and memory.
- C. Revealed a child's grade level in school.
- D. Required creative as well as correct answers.
Explanation: Binet assigned items to an age level when the average child of that age could answer them successfully.
Correct answer: Cloud be answered an average child of that age.- A. Mental age=chronological divided by 100
- B. Chronological age+Mental age=IQ
- C. IQ=mental age X chronological age X 100
- D. IQ=mental age divided by chronological age X 100
Explanation: The traditional IQ formula is mental age divided by chronological age, multiplied by 100.
Correct answer: IQ=mental age divided by chronological age X 100- A. between fraternal twins
- B. between identical twins
- C. between non-twin siblings
- D. between parent and child
Explanation: Identical twins share nearly all of their genes, so their IQ scores tend to be more similar than those of fraternal twins, ordinary…
Correct answer: between identical twins