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81. Bill and Ted had an excellent time-travel adventure back to : 1201972
81. Bill and Ted had an excellent time-travel adventure back to 1916. In order to come back to the present, Bill (who is a little below average in intelligence) needs a score of 115 on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale. Bill has to convince Professor Terman that he is _____ than he actually is, because the Stanford-Binet IQ was calculated as _____.
A. younger; (chronological age/mental age) x 100
B. older; (mental age/chronological age) x 100
C. younger; (mental age/chronological age) x 100
D. older; (chronological age/mental age) x 100
82. Dr. Layaway administers a test of intelligence and scores it by dividing the test taker’s mental age by his or her chronological age and then multiplying that figure times 100. This method of scoring is the same as that used for the original _____ intelligence test.
A. Thurstone
B. Binet
C. Stanford-Binet
D. Wechsler
83. According to Terman’s concept of intelligence quotient (IQ), a ten-year-old child with an IQ of 50 has
A. the chronological age of a five-year-old.
B. the mental age of the average ten-year-old.
C. one-half of the intelligence of the average ten-year-old.
D. a mental age that is lower than her or his chronological age.
84. The United States made use of group intelligence testing during World War I. The tests administered were
A. the first to employ standardization techniques, which are universal today.
B. culturally biased, often leading to seriously incorrect conclusions.
C. the first to have strong predictive validity, a goal which all IQ tests strive for today.
D. the first to test the complete range of intelligence, which virtually all IQ tests do today.
85. The intelligence tests that were administered to World War I military recruits
A. were given in a standardized manner.
B. provided an accurate assessment of the intelligence of recruits.
C. contained mostly culture-free content.
D. indicated that half of the soldiers tested had a mental age of thirteen or lower.
86. One difference between the Wechsler intelligence scales and the original Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale is that the Wechsler scales
A. are designed solely for measuring the intelligence of children.
B. can be used to test more than one individual at a time.
C. present verbal and performance tasks separately.
D. are culture-free.
87. Paco takes a test that asks him to solve arithmetic problems, define words, and answer general knowledge questions. He is most likely being tested on the _____ scale of an intelligence test.
A. fluid reasoning
B. verbal
C. performance
D. functional
88. Lakisha is taking the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. She is currently being asked to place, in order, the frames of a Peanuts cartoon that contain only pictures (no dialogue). Lakisha is currently working on a subtest that would be part of the _____ scale of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.
A. verbal
B. reliability
C. validity
D. performance
89. Under the current method of IQ scoring, an IQ score of 100 would be assigned to a person
A. whose score matched that of the mainstream culture of a population.
B. whose score was average for his or her age group.
C. whose score fell in the upper middle of the distribution of scores of his or her age group.
D. who correctly answered half the questions on an IQ test.
90. Dinah took the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-III) last month. The results of the test indicated that she had an IQ of 123. Dinah’s IQ was determined by
A. dividing her mental age by her actual age and multiplying by 100.
B. a statistical comparison of her raw scores to the raw scores of others in her age group.
C. giving her one IQ point for every question that she answered correctly and subtracting an IQ point for each incorrect answer.
D. the testers’ subjective judgment.
