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1
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The widely used American revision of Alfred Binet’s original intelligence test was developed by:

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Lewis Terman

2
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A 9-year-old who responded to the original Stanford-Binet with the proficiency of an average 12-year-old was said to have an IQ of

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133

3
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A test designed to assess whether newly graduated medical students should be granted the legal right to practice medicine would most likely be considered a(n) ________ test.

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achievement

4
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Before publishing her test of musical aptitude, Professor Reed first administered the test to a representative sample of people. This was most clearly necessary for test

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standardization

5
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When retested on the WAIS, people’s second scores generally match their first scores quite closely. This indicates that the test has a high degree of

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reliability

6
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If course exams assess a student’s mastery of a representative sample of course material, they are said to

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have content validity

7
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Comparing the intelligence test scores among people from distinctly different age cohorts requires

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cross-sectional studies

8
Q

The first modern test of intelligence was developed in

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France

9
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A 6-year-old who responded to the original Stanford-Binet with the proficiency typical of an average 9-year-old was said to have a mental age of

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9

10
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A high school counselor gave Amy a test designed to predict whether she could learn to become a successful architect. Amy most likely took a(n) ________ test.

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aptitude

11
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A score on the WAIS that is higher than all but 2 percent of all scores earns an intelligence score of

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130

12
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Some hereditarians have been fearful that higher twentieth-century birth rates among those with lower intelligence scores would shove average intelligence scores progressively downward. This fear has been most directly alleviated by the discovery of

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the Flynn effect

13
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Mary’s bathroom scale always overstates people’s actual weight by exactly six pounds. The scale has ________ reliability and ________ validity.

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high; low

14
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University grades are used to assess the ________ of the SAT.

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predictive validity