Measurement Of Intelligence Quiz 12 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the term for backward-acting disruptive effect of newer learning on the recall of old information?

Correct Answer: B) Retroactive Interference.

2. What is the main purpose of the 16 Personality Factors?

Correct Answer: A) Select, develop and motivate the people who make organizations thrive.

3. The process of defining meaningful scores relative to a pretested group is called

Correct Answer: C) Standardization.

4. ..... learners may tap a pencil or foot while studying.

Correct Answer: C) Kinesthetic.

5. When seeing if a test is reliable, taking it more than once is termed:

Correct Answer: D) Test-Retest.

6. Everyone is .....

Correct Answer: D) Intelligent.

7. Intelligence tests tend to measure ..... thinking; tests of creativity tend to measure ..... thinking.

Correct Answer: C) Convergent; divergent.

8. Raymond Cattell's age related intelligence is broken down by what 2 types?

Correct Answer: D) Crystallized & Fluid.

9. 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

Correct Answer: B) Standardized.

10. Regardless of what your strongest inteliigences are, it is important to get the best ..... you can get.

Correct Answer: A) Education.

11. What IQ score is generally considered low enough to constitute an intellectual disability

Correct Answer: A) 70.

12. The ability to control one's impulses and delay immediate pleasures in pursuit of long-term goals is most clearly a characteristic of:

Correct Answer: A) Emotional intelligence.

13. What term refers to the rules we use to order words into sentences

Correct Answer: A) Syntax.

14. What does WAIS stand for?

Correct Answer: C) Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.

15. Library is to book as book is to

Correct Answer: B) Page.

16. What is the most commonly used intelligence test today that is made up of both verbal & nonverbal components?

Correct Answer: B) Wechsler (WAIS).

17. What type of encoding occurs on a basic level, based on the structure or appearance of words?

Correct Answer: B) Shallow Processing.

18. Mental age / by chronological age X 100 =

Correct Answer: A) IQ.

19. Intelligence that involves sensitivity to sounds, rhythms, tones, and music

Correct Answer: B) Musical-Rhythmic Intelligence.

20. What is the immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system?

Correct Answer: A) Sensory Memory.