PSYC 290 Unit 3 and 4 UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Brenna took a test to measure her creativity. She tells you that her final score on the test was
70. She knows you are taking a psychology class, so she asks you what this scare means. You
should tell Brenna that ....
a. a score of 70 is probably a high score since most tests have a maximum score of 80.
b. she will need to take the test again before her score can be accurately interpreted
c. you cant interpret her score without knowing the norms for the test.
d. a score of 70 is probably a low score since most tests are normed to have an averge score
of 100 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- c. you cant interpret her score without knowing the
norms for the test.
Jade is a graduate student who has been studying psychology for the past six years. When she
first started in her psychology classes, she frequently got key concepts mixed up. Now she
can easily apply core concepts to novel situations. What type of intelligence is associated
with Jade's current ability to apply her knowledge?
a. inductive intelligence
b. experimental intelligence
c. crystallized intelligence
d. fluid intelligence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- c. crystallized intelligence
High similarity between which of the following would constitute the strongest evidence for
environmental influence in intelligence?
a. identical twins reared together
b. adopted children and their biological parents
c. adopted children and their adoptive parents
d. parents and their biological children - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- c. adopted children and
their adoptive parents
At the beginning of the semester, all the students enrolled in a fitness class are required to
take a test designed to assess their current fitness level. The test assesses each student's fat-to-
muscle ratio, asks a number of questions about lifestyle and personal habits and measures
,aerobic function and stress response. Which of the following appears to be true about the
preliminary fitness test?
a. it has been well standardized
b. it is likely to have high reliability
c. it is likely to have high construct validity
d. it is likely to have low criterion-related validity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- c. it is likely
to have high construct validity
Currently, what is the proportion of the general population classified as intellectually
disabled? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 2-3%
What are the means and standard deviations used for most modern intelligence quotient tests?
- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- mean of 100 points and stand deviation of 15 points
If you know that Marnie has a high IQ score, you could predict that... - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- she has an increased likelihood of having a high-status job
Which of the statements regarding heredity and intelligence is least accurate?
a. fraternal twins reared together have higher correlations on IQ than do identical twins reared
apart
b. fraternal twins reared together have a higher correlation on IQ than do non-twin siblings
reared together
c. identical twins show higher correlation on IQ than do fraternal twins
d. sibling reared together have higher correlation on IQ than do siblings reared aparts -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a. fraternal twins reared together have higher correlations on IQ
than do identical twins reared apart
What is the Flynn effect? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Performance on IQ tests seems to be
rising steadily and consistently over time
Which form of mental retardation is caused by the presence of an extra chromosome? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Down syndrome
, What is the term used to refer to genetically determined limits of IQ? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- reaction range
What is the term for the degree to which the items on a test are representative of the domain
the test is suppose to cover? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- content validity
Which of the following phrases was coined by Galton in his analysis of heredity and the role
of the environment on intelligence?
a. survival of the fittest
b. common sense
c. nature versus nurture
d. assortative mating - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- c. nature versus nurture
A score that indicates the proportion of people who scored below your obtained score is a
____ score. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Percentile score
Daphne is analyzing data from a new psychological test. She is looking at all the correlations
for all the various questions to determine whether there are some traits that seem to go
together. Which of the following procedures is similar to Daphne's technique?
a. analysis of variance
b. covariance
c. trend analysis
d. factor analysis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- d. factor analysis
Dr. Ravenclaw has two different introductory psychology classes. When she gives the
midterm to one class, she tells them answering the questions will involve a great deal of
linguistic fluency and that females tend to outperform males on test involving linguistic
fluency. When Dr. Ravenclaw gives the midterm to the second class, she does not make this
same statement about linguistic fluency to the class. Given the concept of stereotype
vulnerability, what would you to predict will happen? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- males in
the first class will perform more poorly because they will worry that others will blame their
failure on their sex.
If a test accurately measures what it was designed to measure, we would say that the test is -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- valid
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Brenna took a test to measure her creativity. She tells you that her final score on the test was
70. She knows you are taking a psychology class, so she asks you what this scare means. You
should tell Brenna that ....
a. a score of 70 is probably a high score since most tests have a maximum score of 80.
b. she will need to take the test again before her score can be accurately interpreted
c. you cant interpret her score without knowing the norms for the test.
d. a score of 70 is probably a low score since most tests are normed to have an averge score
of 100 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- c. you cant interpret her score without knowing the
norms for the test.
Jade is a graduate student who has been studying psychology for the past six years. When she
first started in her psychology classes, she frequently got key concepts mixed up. Now she
can easily apply core concepts to novel situations. What type of intelligence is associated
with Jade's current ability to apply her knowledge?
a. inductive intelligence
b. experimental intelligence
c. crystallized intelligence
d. fluid intelligence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- c. crystallized intelligence
High similarity between which of the following would constitute the strongest evidence for
environmental influence in intelligence?
a. identical twins reared together
b. adopted children and their biological parents
c. adopted children and their adoptive parents
d. parents and their biological children - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- c. adopted children and
their adoptive parents
At the beginning of the semester, all the students enrolled in a fitness class are required to
take a test designed to assess their current fitness level. The test assesses each student's fat-to-
muscle ratio, asks a number of questions about lifestyle and personal habits and measures
,aerobic function and stress response. Which of the following appears to be true about the
preliminary fitness test?
a. it has been well standardized
b. it is likely to have high reliability
c. it is likely to have high construct validity
d. it is likely to have low criterion-related validity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- c. it is likely
to have high construct validity
Currently, what is the proportion of the general population classified as intellectually
disabled? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 2-3%
What are the means and standard deviations used for most modern intelligence quotient tests?
- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- mean of 100 points and stand deviation of 15 points
If you know that Marnie has a high IQ score, you could predict that... - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- she has an increased likelihood of having a high-status job
Which of the statements regarding heredity and intelligence is least accurate?
a. fraternal twins reared together have higher correlations on IQ than do identical twins reared
apart
b. fraternal twins reared together have a higher correlation on IQ than do non-twin siblings
reared together
c. identical twins show higher correlation on IQ than do fraternal twins
d. sibling reared together have higher correlation on IQ than do siblings reared aparts -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a. fraternal twins reared together have higher correlations on IQ
than do identical twins reared apart
What is the Flynn effect? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Performance on IQ tests seems to be
rising steadily and consistently over time
Which form of mental retardation is caused by the presence of an extra chromosome? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Down syndrome
, What is the term used to refer to genetically determined limits of IQ? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- reaction range
What is the term for the degree to which the items on a test are representative of the domain
the test is suppose to cover? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- content validity
Which of the following phrases was coined by Galton in his analysis of heredity and the role
of the environment on intelligence?
a. survival of the fittest
b. common sense
c. nature versus nurture
d. assortative mating - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- c. nature versus nurture
A score that indicates the proportion of people who scored below your obtained score is a
____ score. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Percentile score
Daphne is analyzing data from a new psychological test. She is looking at all the correlations
for all the various questions to determine whether there are some traits that seem to go
together. Which of the following procedures is similar to Daphne's technique?
a. analysis of variance
b. covariance
c. trend analysis
d. factor analysis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- d. factor analysis
Dr. Ravenclaw has two different introductory psychology classes. When she gives the
midterm to one class, she tells them answering the questions will involve a great deal of
linguistic fluency and that females tend to outperform males on test involving linguistic
fluency. When Dr. Ravenclaw gives the midterm to the second class, she does not make this
same statement about linguistic fluency to the class. Given the concept of stereotype
vulnerability, what would you to predict will happen? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- males in
the first class will perform more poorly because they will worry that others will blame their
failure on their sex.
If a test accurately measures what it was designed to measure, we would say that the test is -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- valid
