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Question 31

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Ashley is 30 years old. She has an IQ score of 60, and she has developed academic skills equivalent to a sixth-grade education level. She is self-supporting, even though she still lives with her parents. According to the system traditionally used to categorize various levels of mental retardation, Ashley would MOST likely be classified as having

A) moderate mental retardation.
B) mild mental retardation.
C) severe mental retardation.
D) profound mental retardation.

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Which of the following does NOT characterize a psychological test?

A) Psychological tests allow one to predict behavior with great accuracy.
B) Psychological tests are samples of behavior.
C) Psychological tests are standardized measures of behavior.
D) Psychological tests measure individual differences.

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Jamal recently completed an intelligence test and was told that his IQ score was 135. Based on the standard practices in most school districts, Jamal would

In order to be diagnosed as mentally retarded, a child must

Thurstone proposed that intelligence consisted of:

Psychologists who emphasize that most mildly retarded children come from the lower socioeconomic classes, tend to believe that the majority of cases of mental retardation are caused by

Dr. Karlyle has developed a new logical reasoning test. She administers the test to a group of incoming freshman. The next year, she tests the same students, who are now sophomores, and finds that the overall correlation between the two sets of scores is -0.25. Based on this information, Dr. Karlyle should conclude that her new test

Coleman is currently 30 years old. When he was 15 years old, he took an intelligence test and was told that his IQ score was 110. If Coleman retakes the intelligence test now, he would likely discover that his current IQ score

Where a person's actual IQ score falls within the reaction range is determined by

Diego is 8 years old, but on intelligence tests he scores at the level typical for a 10 year old. Using the intelligence quotient formula developed by Lewis Terman, Diego would have an IQ score of

An estimate of the proportion of trait variability in a population that is determined by variations in genetic inheritance is known as

The results of recent research suggest that the incidence of ____ among profoundly gifted children (those with an IQ above 180) is about twice as high as in other children.

Many individuals diagnosed as ____ mentally retarded become self-supporting and shed the label of retarded when they reach adulthood and leave the educational system.

The degree to which the items on a test are representative of the domain it is supposed to cover is referred to as

At the end of her calculus course, Mary takes a test to determine how well she has mastered the material. Her calculus test is primarily

The original French intelligence test was revised and renamed the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale by

Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon devised the first intelligence test in 1905 in order to

At the beginning of the semester, all the students enrolled in Tommy's fitness class are required to take a test designed to assess their current fitness level. The test assesses each student's fat to muscle ratio, asks a number of questions about lifestyle and personal habits, and also measures aerobic function and stress response. In this case, it appears that the preliminary fitness test

Which technique analyzes correlations among many variables to identify closely related clusters?

Jerome is 8 years old and has been determined to have a mental age of 10. What is Jerome's IQ?