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Intelligence and Personality Reivew

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  • Q1
    Robert Sternberg distinguished among analytical, practical, and __________ intelligence
    creative
    spatial
    social
    interpersonal
    30s
  • Q2
    Melissa is unconsciously fearful that her husband is a better cook than she. Recently, she refused his offer to prepare dinner because, said she, "You could better spend the time playing with our kids." Melissa's comment best illustrates:
    reaction formation
    displacement
    projection
    rationalization
    30s
  • Q3
    Experts who defend intelligence tests against the charge of being culturally biased and discriminatory would be most likely to highlight the ________ of intelligence tests
    Factor analysis
    Content validity
    Predictive validity
    Reliability
    30s
  • Q4
    The WAIS consist of separate ____________ subtests
    convergent and divergent thinking
    aptitude and achievement
    mathematical and creativity
    verbal and performance
    30s
  • Q5
    Factor analysis is a statistical procedure that can be used to:
    Extract test norms from a standardized sample
    Identify clusters of closely related items
    Derive IQ scores by comparing mental age to chronological age
    Standardize Samples
    30s
  • Q6
    Parents who disguise hostility toward their children by becoming overly protective of them are likely using the defense mechanism of:
    reaction formation
    projection
    rationalization
    sublimation
    30s
  • Q7
    Coping with anxiety by retreating to behavior patterns characteristic of an earlier more infantile state of development is called:
    Sublimation
    Denial
    Regression
    Reification
    30s
  • Q8
    Contemporary psychodynamic theorist are most likely to disagree with Freud's assumption that:
    free association can identify unconscious conflicts
    childhood experience influences our adulthood relationships
    people often struggle with conflicting wishes
    sexual drives are central to personality development
    30s
  • Q9
    People's scores on the general intelligence factor are most highly correlated with their ability to solve _________ problems
    rational
    novel
    social
    emotional
    30s
  • Q10
    Hasina was an abused child; as an adult, she is homeless and squanders any money she can find on alcohol. Alfred Adler would have suggested Hasina suffers from:
    the spotlight effect
    the Barnum effect
    misidentification
    feelings of inferiority
    30s
  • Q11
    the normal curve would represent the distribution of:
    American women in terms of their physical heights
    All of the above
    the American population by gender
    American school children in terms of their ages
    30s
  • Q12
    The percentage of people diagnosed with mental retardation has ________ over the past 80 years because intelligence tests have been _________
    decreased; factor analyzed
    increased; factor analyzed
    decreased; restandardized
    increased; restandardized
    30s
  • Q13
    the heritability of intelligence is lowest among genetically
    dissimilar individuals who have been raised in similar environments
    similar individuals who have been raised in similar environments
    similar individuals who have been raised in dissimilar environments
    dissimilar individuals who have been raised in dissimilar environments
    30s

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