OCEAN ACADEMY

TEST SET AB – INTELLIGENCE

Questions: 20 Time: 20 Min

1. If it is demonstrated that an intelligence test discriminates against certain ethnic groups,

then it can be said that the test:

A) Intelligence test is reliable

B) Intelligence test has used a standardisation sample
C) Intelligence test is valid
D) Intelligence test has culture bias

2. According to Sternberg, intelligence is:

A) made up of three different independent intelligences

B) a single, general underlying ability.
C) made up of eight or more independent mental abilities
D) a single, specific ability which cannot be measured by traditional intelligence tests (a)
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3. If an intelligence test measures consistently what it is supposed to be measuring each time it is

used, then it is said that the test is:

A) based on a normal distribution.

B) standardised.
C) valid.
D) reliable.

4. Binet viewed intelligence as 

A) many specific abilities that are independent of one another and affect how well a child learns
at school.
B) a combination of general and specific abilities for which mental age affects test performance
at specific chronological ages.
C) a general ability associated with specific, but related, mental functions.
D) a general ability that is not age-related.

5. One key claim of Gardner's theory of intelligence is that:

A) physical abilities cannot be viewed as intelligence.
B) intelligence is actually a talent.
C) people in different cultures hold the same views on intelligent behaviour.
D) different intelligences are independent of one another

6. Which of the following is not one of Gardner's multiple intelligences?

A) bodily-kinaesthetic intelligence
B) spatial intelligence
C) spiritual intelligence
D) musical intelligence

7. Intelligence tests are mainly used to

A) place school children in special classes.

B) identify IQ.
C) identify cultural bias.
D) diagnose problems with cognitive functioning.

8.Which of the following is not a characteristic of emotional intelligence?

A) ability to perceive emotions accurately
B) ability to access and/or generate feelings
C) ability to define words
D) ability to understand emotional knowledge

9. In relation to intelligence testing, mental age can be described as:

A) the actual age of someone, including both years and months.
B) the number of correct answers minus incorrect answers.
C) the relationship to actual age when divided by 100.
D) an individual's score compared with the mean score of others in the same age group.

10. A feature of practical intelligence is having tacit knowledge or being regarded as:
A) sassy
B) book smart
C) street smart
D) people smart

11. Who has regarded intelligence as a capacity of the organism to adjust itself to an
increasingly complex environment?
(a) Guilford
(b) Jensen
(c) Spencer
(d) Gallon
(e) E.G. Boring
12. Who described the composition of intelligence in terms of “intellectual breadth and
intellectual altitude?
(a) R. B. Cattell
(b) A. R. Jensen
(c) L. L. Thurstone
(d) E. G. Boring
(e) Carl Spearman
13. According to Wechsler, intelligence is global because it characterises the individual’s
behaviour:
(a) Throughout the world
(b) As the capacity to learn
(c) As the ability to carry an abstract thinking
(d) As a whole
(e) None of the above
14. It has been suggested that mental growth stops somewhere between the ages:
(a) 16 and 20
(b) 14 and 24
(c) 10 and 20
(d) 8 and 12
(e) 6 and 8

15. Mental age (MA) reaches its maximum limit by about the age of:
(a) 16
(b) 17
(c) 14
(d) 20
(e) 19

16. Which type of tests of intelligence was developed when people of different languages or
illiterates had to be tested?
(a) Verbal tests
(b) Reasoning tests
(c) Non-verbal tests
(d) Culture-free tests
(e) None of the above

17. Non-verbal tests are also called:

(a) General tests
(b) Specific tests
(c) Performance tests
(d) Reliable tests
(e) None of the above

18. E.L. Thorndike’s multifactor theory of intelligence is at one extreme of the interpre-
tations regarding the nature of:
(a) Motor Organization
(b) Intellectual Organization
(c) Mental Organization
(d) Reasoning
(e) None of the above

19. The two-factor and the group-factor theories emerge from the methods of:
(a) Psychophysics
(b) Psychotherapy
(c) Psychophysiology
(d) Factor Analysis
(e) None of the above

20. The first scale, devised primarily to identify mentally deficient children in the school of
Paris is known as:
(a) Thurstone Scale
(b) The 1905 Binet – Simon scale
(c) Wechsler Scale
(d) Galton Scale
(e) Spencer Scale