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Boys are most likely to outperform girls in a(n)
Interventions that promote intelligence teach early teens that the brain is like a muscle that strengthens with use. This idea is designed to encourage the teens to view intelligence as
Twin and adoption studies are helpful for assessing the ________ of intelligence.
In developing a test of intellectual ability for Parisian schoolchildren, Binet and Simon assumed that
Sweden and Iceland exhibit little of the gender gap in mathematical abilities found in Turkey and Korea. This best illustrates that mental abilities are
Terman's observations of 1500 California children with IQ scores over 135 contradicted the popular notion that intellectually gifted children are typically
Tests designed to predict ability to learn new skills are called
Who attempted to assess intellectual strengths by measuring muscular power, sensory acuity, and body proportions?
In the early twentieth century, the U.S. government developed intelligence tests to evaluate newly arriving immigrants. Poor test scores among immigrants who were not of Anglo-Saxon heritage were attributed by some psychologists of that day to
Tests designed to assess what a person has learned are called ________ tests.
A bell-shaped curve that characterizes a large sample of intelligence test scores is a graphic representation of a
Sorina has a mental age of 10 and an IQ of 125 as measured by the Stanford-Binet. Sorina's chronological age is
Lewis Terman's widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test was the
Object assembly, picture arrangement, and block design are three performance subtests of the
The speed with which people retrieve information from memory has been found to be a predictor of their ________ intelligence.
The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations is known as
People's scores on the general intelligence factor are most highly correlated with their ability to solve ________ problems.
Dr. Bronfman has administered her new 100-item test of abstract reasoning to a large sample of students. She is presently comparing their scores on the odd-numbered questions with those on the even-numbered questions in an effort to
Who would have been most enthusiastic about the value of a single intelligence test score as an index of an individual's mental capacities?
To learn whether intelligence is related to information-processing capacities, researchers have tested participants to determine how long it takes them to