Psychology 1000 Exam test queries
and answers graded A+
Define intelligence? - ANS✅✅The ability to acquire knowledge, to think and reason effectively, and
to deal adaptively with the environment.
Intelligence is a ___________________ constructed concept? - ANS✅✅Socially.
Sir Francis Galton believed that intelligence is _______________? - ANS✅✅Inherited.
What did Sir Francis Galton believe was related to intelligence? - ANS✅✅Skull size.
What did Sir Francis Galton measure? - ANS✅✅Reaction speed, hand strength, and sensory acuity
to test intelligence.
What did Sir Francis Galton measure that ended up being useless? - ANS✅✅The correlation
coefficient.
What does it mean when Sir Francis Galton thought intelligence was unitary? - ANS✅✅That
intelligence is based on mental quickness.
What were the two assumptions Alfred Binet made about intelligence? - ANS✅✅(1) Mental
abilities develop with age
(2) The rate at which people gain mental competence is a characteristic of the person and is fairly
constant over time.
Define the concept of Mental Age? - ANS✅✅Created by Alfred Binet.
Mental age was to develop a measure of mental skills, Binet asked experienced teachers what sorts
of problems children could solve at ages three, four, five, etc. up through the school years.
,He used their answers to develop a standardized interview in which an adult examiner posed a series
of question to a child to determine whether the child was performing at the correct mental level for
his or her age.
Define the intelligence quotient? - ANS✅✅(IQ) developed by William Stern from Alfred Binet's
mental age concept.
IQ is a ratio of mental age / actual age
IQ's have a mean of __________ and a standard deviation of _________? - ANS✅✅100
15
What are the two major approaches in the study of intelligence? - ANS✅✅Psychometric approach.
Cognitive process approach.
What is the psychometric approach? - ANS✅✅Attempts to amp the structure of intellect and
discover the kinds of mental competencies that underlie test performance.
Tries identify and measure the abilities that underlie individual differences in performance.
It tries to provide measurement-based map of the mind.
What is the cognitive process approach? - ANS✅✅Studies the specific thought processes that
underlie those mental competencies.
Define psychometrics? - ANS✅✅The statistical study of psychological test.
Define factor analysis? - ANS✅✅Reduces a large number of measures to a small number of
clusters, or factors, with each cluster containing variables that correlate highly with one another but
less highly with variables in other clusters.
Define g-factor? - ANS✅✅Developed by Spearman.
, General intelligence
Intelligence is based on a particular skill.
Whatever special abilities might be required to perform that particular task.
What did Thurston believe? - ANS✅✅That intelligence is more than a g-factor.
Believed that their are 7 distinct abilities, which is called primary mental abilities.
Performance would be influenced more by specific skills than any g factor.
What did Cattell and Horn believe? - ANS✅✅There are 2 subtypes of the g-factor:
Crystallized intelligence (gc) and Fluid intelligence (gf)
Define Crystallized Intelligence? - ANS✅✅The ability to apply previously acquired knowledge to
current problems.
Define Fluid Intelligence? - ANS✅✅The ability to deal with novel problem-solving situations for
which personal experience does not provide a solution.
What are good measures of crystallized intelligence? - ANS✅✅vocabulary and information tests.
What does crystallized intelligence depend on? - ANS✅✅The ability to retrieve previously learned
information and problem-solving schemas from long-term memory.
Perviously learning and practise.
Long-term memory.
and answers graded A+
Define intelligence? - ANS✅✅The ability to acquire knowledge, to think and reason effectively, and
to deal adaptively with the environment.
Intelligence is a ___________________ constructed concept? - ANS✅✅Socially.
Sir Francis Galton believed that intelligence is _______________? - ANS✅✅Inherited.
What did Sir Francis Galton believe was related to intelligence? - ANS✅✅Skull size.
What did Sir Francis Galton measure? - ANS✅✅Reaction speed, hand strength, and sensory acuity
to test intelligence.
What did Sir Francis Galton measure that ended up being useless? - ANS✅✅The correlation
coefficient.
What does it mean when Sir Francis Galton thought intelligence was unitary? - ANS✅✅That
intelligence is based on mental quickness.
What were the two assumptions Alfred Binet made about intelligence? - ANS✅✅(1) Mental
abilities develop with age
(2) The rate at which people gain mental competence is a characteristic of the person and is fairly
constant over time.
Define the concept of Mental Age? - ANS✅✅Created by Alfred Binet.
Mental age was to develop a measure of mental skills, Binet asked experienced teachers what sorts
of problems children could solve at ages three, four, five, etc. up through the school years.
,He used their answers to develop a standardized interview in which an adult examiner posed a series
of question to a child to determine whether the child was performing at the correct mental level for
his or her age.
Define the intelligence quotient? - ANS✅✅(IQ) developed by William Stern from Alfred Binet's
mental age concept.
IQ is a ratio of mental age / actual age
IQ's have a mean of __________ and a standard deviation of _________? - ANS✅✅100
15
What are the two major approaches in the study of intelligence? - ANS✅✅Psychometric approach.
Cognitive process approach.
What is the psychometric approach? - ANS✅✅Attempts to amp the structure of intellect and
discover the kinds of mental competencies that underlie test performance.
Tries identify and measure the abilities that underlie individual differences in performance.
It tries to provide measurement-based map of the mind.
What is the cognitive process approach? - ANS✅✅Studies the specific thought processes that
underlie those mental competencies.
Define psychometrics? - ANS✅✅The statistical study of psychological test.
Define factor analysis? - ANS✅✅Reduces a large number of measures to a small number of
clusters, or factors, with each cluster containing variables that correlate highly with one another but
less highly with variables in other clusters.
Define g-factor? - ANS✅✅Developed by Spearman.
, General intelligence
Intelligence is based on a particular skill.
Whatever special abilities might be required to perform that particular task.
What did Thurston believe? - ANS✅✅That intelligence is more than a g-factor.
Believed that their are 7 distinct abilities, which is called primary mental abilities.
Performance would be influenced more by specific skills than any g factor.
What did Cattell and Horn believe? - ANS✅✅There are 2 subtypes of the g-factor:
Crystallized intelligence (gc) and Fluid intelligence (gf)
Define Crystallized Intelligence? - ANS✅✅The ability to apply previously acquired knowledge to
current problems.
Define Fluid Intelligence? - ANS✅✅The ability to deal with novel problem-solving situations for
which personal experience does not provide a solution.
What are good measures of crystallized intelligence? - ANS✅✅vocabulary and information tests.
What does crystallized intelligence depend on? - ANS✅✅The ability to retrieve previously learned
information and problem-solving schemas from long-term memory.
Perviously learning and practise.
Long-term memory.
