Clinical Psychology Exam 2: Intelligence
Assessment ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Intelligence assessment was developed to - Correct answers✔✔identify children who needed
special help with curriculum
Binet-Simon Scale - Correct answers✔✔the first IQ test, used to assess "mental age"
intelligence is variable and malleable
Lewis Terman - Correct answers✔✔developed Alpha and Beta intelligence tests for military
for intellectually disabled and gifted children
Three classes of defining intelligence - Correct answers✔✔Adjustment to environment, ability to
learn, and abstract thinking
Charles Spearman used factor analysis to say that intelligence is - Correct answers✔✔broad-
based and generalized
G (general intelligence) - Correct answers✔✔represents elements common to intelligence tests
S (specific intelligence) - Correct answers✔✔for unique factors of a given test
Thurstone's approach to intelligence - Correct answers✔✔refuted the notion of g and posed a
group factor concept of primary mental abilities
, examples of primary mental abilities - Correct answers✔✔numerical facility, word fluency,
verbal comprehension, perceptual speed, reasoning, etc.
Fluid intelligence (Gf) - Correct answers✔✔ability to use logic to solve problems or detect
patterns in novel situations
inductive and deductive reasoning
ex. sequential reasoning, induction, and quantitative reasoning
Fluid intelligence peaks in - Correct answers✔✔young adulthood, and declines after
Crystallized intelligence (Gc) - Correct answers✔✔ability to use acquired skills, knowledge and
experience to solve problems
culturally specific, grows with age
ex. printed language, language comprehension, vocabulary knowledge
Fluid intelligence and Crystallized intelligence are likely - Correct answers✔✔dependent on
separate neural systems
Structure of Intellect Theory: 3D intelligence - Correct answers✔✔operations, contents, products
Operations - Correct answers✔✔cognition, memory, divergent (creative) and convergent (rule-
based) problem solving, evaluation
Contents - Correct answers✔✔areas of information in which operations are performed
ex. figural, symbolic, semantic, behavioral
Assessment ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Intelligence assessment was developed to - Correct answers✔✔identify children who needed
special help with curriculum
Binet-Simon Scale - Correct answers✔✔the first IQ test, used to assess "mental age"
intelligence is variable and malleable
Lewis Terman - Correct answers✔✔developed Alpha and Beta intelligence tests for military
for intellectually disabled and gifted children
Three classes of defining intelligence - Correct answers✔✔Adjustment to environment, ability to
learn, and abstract thinking
Charles Spearman used factor analysis to say that intelligence is - Correct answers✔✔broad-
based and generalized
G (general intelligence) - Correct answers✔✔represents elements common to intelligence tests
S (specific intelligence) - Correct answers✔✔for unique factors of a given test
Thurstone's approach to intelligence - Correct answers✔✔refuted the notion of g and posed a
group factor concept of primary mental abilities
, examples of primary mental abilities - Correct answers✔✔numerical facility, word fluency,
verbal comprehension, perceptual speed, reasoning, etc.
Fluid intelligence (Gf) - Correct answers✔✔ability to use logic to solve problems or detect
patterns in novel situations
inductive and deductive reasoning
ex. sequential reasoning, induction, and quantitative reasoning
Fluid intelligence peaks in - Correct answers✔✔young adulthood, and declines after
Crystallized intelligence (Gc) - Correct answers✔✔ability to use acquired skills, knowledge and
experience to solve problems
culturally specific, grows with age
ex. printed language, language comprehension, vocabulary knowledge
Fluid intelligence and Crystallized intelligence are likely - Correct answers✔✔dependent on
separate neural systems
Structure of Intellect Theory: 3D intelligence - Correct answers✔✔operations, contents, products
Operations - Correct answers✔✔cognition, memory, divergent (creative) and convergent (rule-
based) problem solving, evaluation
Contents - Correct answers✔✔areas of information in which operations are performed
ex. figural, symbolic, semantic, behavioral
