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Which of the following most likely constitutes a violation of standardization when administering a test?

A) All test takers are given the same form to fill out.
B) Due to excessive noise,some students are allowed to take more time to finish the test.
C) The same set of instructions are read to everyone who is taking the test.
D) Those taking the test are reminded of the amount of time left for the test,at 15-minute intervals.

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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The correlation between IQ scores of identical twins raised together is found to be +.85 and the correlation between IQ scores of identical twins reared apart is found to be +.70.What is the most likely source of the .15 difference found between the two groups?

A) the impact of genetics.
B) the impact of the environment.
C) sampling errors.
D) validity of the assessment tool.

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

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Discuss Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences,listing and describing the eight categories of intelligence.How is emotional intelligence related to his concepts of interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence?

Sir Francis Galton wrote the book Hereditary Genius,started the eugenics movement,and suggested a number of controversial ideas concerning the nature of intelligence.

A boy who is 10 years old has just tested at a mental age of eight.What would his IQ be using Terman's formula for deriving this number?

Several decades ago,the gap between the IQ scores of African Americans and White Americans was estimated to be about 15 IQ points.What do contemporary studies reveal about the gap?

How many years ago were psychological assessments first used on a large scale?

A 5-year-old child has taken Alfred Binet's test of intelligence,and his parents have just been told that his mental age is nine.What does this score indicate?

A totally unreliable test results in a correlation coefficient of 0.00.

Martina was asked to derive the IQ score for one of her friends.If Martina used Terman's concept of an IQ,how would she proceed?

Norms are a uniform set of procedures for treating each participant in a test,interview,or experiment.

According to a large-scale study of more than 26,000 children,what are the best predictors of a child's IQ at age four?

In the language of assessment,which term refers to a test that measures what an assessor intends it to measure?

According to Raymond Cattell,general intelligence can be broken down into two relatively independent components,which he called and intelligence.

A woman has many limitations with respect to her adaptive skills and an IQ of 65.According to the system in use today,she would be classified as intellectually disabled.

When it was developed in the early 1900s,the IQ was the ratio of to multiplied by 100.

An 8-year-old child who has a mental age of ten will have an IQ of 80.

A valuable quality of heritability estimates is that,once a heritability estimate has been computed within a given group,it can be used to interpret differences between groups.

The project director for the latest test that is being developed informs her assistant that,because of certain concerns,she wants to use an internal consistency measure of reliability for this test.What approach should the assistant take?

All children who are 5-years-old will,by definition,have a mental age of five.