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Alfred Binet defined intelligence as the ability to learn or adapt to one?s environment

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B) False

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Compare the WPPSI-III, the WISC-IV, and the WAIS-III in terms of their structure, scoring, and age range for which each is appropriate.

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Match the test for which they are responsible with one person : -progressive matrices


A) Raven
B) Goldstein

C) A) and B)
D) undefined

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Binet defined intelligence as the ability to


A) deduce relationships and to think abstractly.
B) judge, reason, and comprehend well.
C) learn and adapt to one?s environment
D) remember and process information

E) C) and D)
F) All of the above

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Which of the following is not one of the Indexes (Composite Indexes) on the WISC -IV


A) Processing Speed
B) Perceptual Reasoning
C) Working Memory
D) Verbal Abstraction

E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

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Individual intelligence test is to group intelligence test as __________ is to __________.


A) Binet, Woodworth
B) Terman, Otis
C) Thorndike, Jung
D) Wechsler, Terman

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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The first practical intelligence test was designed to identify gifted children in a public school system.

A) True
B) False

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Group tests are used more than individual tests for


A) analyzing the effects of organic brain damage.
B) initial screening in schools and businesses.
C) making clinical diagnoses.
D) obtaining information on special intellectual strengths and weaknesses.

E) A) and C)
F) B) and D)

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The most popular group intelligence tests are multi-level instruments spanning the entire range of school grades.

A) True
B) False

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Group tests of intelligence are more economical than individual tests, in addition to being less reliable and valid.

A) True
B) False

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The first standardized battery of performance tests was the


A) Arthur Point Scale of Performance Tests.
B) Leiter International Performance Scale.
C) Pintner-Paterson Scale of Performance Tests.
D) Wechsler-Bellevue Performance Scale.

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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The fourth edition of the Stanford-Binet represented a marked departure from previous editions of the scale in terms of structure, administration, and scoring.

A) True
B) False

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The WAIS-III emphasizes verbal tasks more than the Stanford-Binet, but the adult version of the latter test is highly loaded with performance -type tasks.

A) True
B) False

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On ?culture-fair? intelligence tests such as the Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test, the Raven Progressive Matrices, and the Culture Fair Intelligence Test, the effects of culture are probably


A) eliminated.
B) emphasized.
C) ignored.
D) minimized.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Trace the development of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale from the first through the fourth editions.

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The first Binet-Simon intelligence scale, consisting of 30 short tests arranged in order of ascending difficulty, was published in


A) 1905.
B) 1908.
C) 1911.
D) 1916.

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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The two major group factors in P. E. Vernon?s hierarchical theory of intelligence are


A) contents-operations and products-transformations.
B) convergent-divergent and inductive-deductive.
C) verbal-educational and practical-mechanical.
D) verbal-numerical and spatial-perceptual.

E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

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Match the test for which they are responsible with one person : -hearing handicapped


A) Hiskey
B) Goldstein

C) A) and B)
D) undefined

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Both Robert Sternberg and Howard Gardner developed information-processing models of cognitive abilities.

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B) False

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Describe several definitions of intelligence, and then write a comprehensive definition of the term by integrating the various definitions into a reasonable whole.

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