Psychology 6096 MCQs [All-Courses]

Psychology is the scientific study of human behavior, mental processes, emotions, and personality. It is an important subject for competitive exams such as PPSC, FPSC, NTS, OTS, KPPSC, BPSC, AJKPSC, CSS, and PMS.

Sameena is reading about the history of IQ testing. She finds that Binet’s original intelligence test did not:

A deal with the concept of mental age vs. chronological age.

B include items for adults.

C attempt to test the ability to reason.

D assume that children’s ability increased with age.

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Correct Answer: include items for adults.

Research on intelligence and brain functioning that highly intelligent children demonstrate_______than their less intelligent counterparts.

A smaller synaptic gaps

B longer axons

C higher dopamine levels

D greater neural plasticity

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Correct Answer: greater neural plasticity

Which are the most widely used individual tests of intelligence?

A Wechsler tests

B Stanford-Binet tests

C IQ tests

D Reaction time tests

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Correct Answer: Wechsler tests

Estimates of heritability for intelligence range between_________.

A 25% to 35%

B 50% to 60%

C 50% to 80%

D 0% to 100%

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Correct Answer: 50% to 80%

What explanations have been given to challenge inaccurate, calm that differences in IQ scores between black and white Americans are due to genetic differences in intelligence?

A Disadvantaged social groups are treated differently

B Socio-economic status provides different oppurtunities

C IQ test are biased against minority groups

D all of the above

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Correct Answer: all of the above

The measured difference in IQ between African Americans and white Americans is most likely to be due to which one of the following factors?

A Bias in testing.

B Genetics.

C Environmental differences.

D Lack of effort.

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Correct Answer: Environmental differences.

Anderson argues three of the following-but which ONE is NOT in line with his arguments?

A The first route to knowledge is through thought (central processes).

B The thought route to knowledge is unrelated to individual differences in IQ.

C Thoughtful problem solving can be done either by verbalizing a problem (using language-like propositions to think) or by visualizing (usingvisou-spatial representations to think.

D We need two different kinds of knowledge acquisitions routines, each generated by one of two specific processors.

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Correct Answer: The thought route to knowledge is unrelated to individual differences in IQ.

Detterman believes that:

A General intelligence represents an average of the processing of several independent components that contribute to the performance of any complex task.

B There is a single ability common to all tasks and the differences in this single ability between individuals give rise to differences in general intelligence.

C There is no such thing as general intelligence

D All of the above

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Correct Answer: General intelligence represents an average of the processing of several independent components that contribute to the performance of any complex task.

By measuring the extent to which identical twins reared together score differently on intelligence tests researchers can determine the influence of which factors on intelligence?

A Shared environments

B Non-shared environments

C Shared and non-shared environments

D Genetic traits

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Correct Answer: Non-shared environments

IQ test scores represent________measures of intelligence.

A Genotypic

B Environmental

C Modular

D Phenotypic

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Correct Answer: Phenotypic

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Sameena is reading about the history of IQ testing. She finds that Binet’s original intelligence test did not:

Research on intelligence and brain functioning that highly intelligent children demonstrate_______than their less intelligent counterparts.

Which are the most widely used individual tests of intelligence?

Estimates of heritability for intelligence range between_________.

What explanations have been given to challenge inaccurate, calm that differences in IQ scores between black and white Americans are due to genetic differences in intelligence?

The measured difference in IQ between African Americans and white Americans is most likely to be due to which one of the following factors?

Anderson argues three of the following-but which ONE is NOT in line with his arguments?

Detterman believes that:

By measuring the extent to which identical twins reared together score differently on intelligence tests researchers can determine the influence of which factors on intelligence?

IQ test scores represent________measures of intelligence.