Class_13_Intelligence

Question 1

General Mental Ability (GMA) and job performance

Answer 1

correlations ranging from .32 to .74
- average = .54

Question 2

Alfred Binet

Answer 2

• produced the first formal intelligence test.
• to identify children who would have difficulty in standard education (< 2SD)
• Giftedness (> 2SD)

Question 3

Wechsler Intelligence Scales scores

Answer 3

• full-scale IQ
• Verbal IQ
• Performance IQ

Question 4

Which one is higher, VIQ or PIQ?

Answer 4

PIQ
- caused by school failure and socioeconomic class

Question 5

VIQ and PIQ relationship with types of intelligence

Answer 5

• performance IQ = fluid intelligence
• verbal IQ = crystalized intelligence

Question 6

WASI-II

Answer 6

1. PIQ
   - Matrix Reasoning
   - Block Design
2. VIQ
   - Vocabulary
   - Similarities

Question 7

Draw-a-Person test and WPPSI

Answer 7

low correlation

Question 8

Draw-a-Person test

Answer 8

• cognitive assessment
• diagnosing acquired cognitive disorders in adulthood
• e.g. Alzheimer’s disease
• insufficient evidence to suggest its clinical use

Question 9

profile of losses and preservations

Answer 9

selective cognitive impairments, despite normal IQ scores
- severe amnesia
- frontal lobe damage with neurobehavioral disturbance
- Aphasic patients

Question 10

Which one is less sensitive to impairment, VIQ or PIQ?

Answer 10

VIQ

Question 11

PIQ brain area

Answer 11

right hemisphere lesions
- Block Design can identify right parietal lesions

Question 12

VIQ brain area

Answer 12

left hemisphere lesions
- language systems are left lateralized