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Mental abilities MCQ
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1What were the reasons offered in the video for the higher academic achievement of students with an Asian or East Asian Background? (select ALL that apply)
- ATime outside normal teaching hours is occupied by study groups
- BAsians and East Asians work hard at academic tasks
- COnly the most intelligent Asians emigrated to the US, providing a High IQ gene pool
- DA ‘Confucian’ culture places high value on academic achievement
- EAsians and East Asians in general have a gene for academic achievement
- FAsian students place less emphasis on sport, freeing up time for study
2What was the original purpose of IQ tests developed by Alfred Binet?
- ATo identify people with ‘subnormal’ IQs in order to recommend they be sterilized
- BTo aid in the recruitment of Officers during World War 1
- CTo taylor educational materials to the needs of college students
- DTo identify gifted and talent children
- ETo identify children who needed remedial education
3What does Professor Richard Lynn cite as evidence for the claim that IQs are genetically determined (select all that apply):
- AThe IQs of ‘African Americans’ in North America are rising year by year at a slower rate than the IQs of ‘White Americans’.
- BIn developed nations IQs are more strongly correlated with nutrition and race than educational opportunities
- C‘African American’ children adopted by ‘White American’ families never reach the same IQs as their ‘White American’ siblings
- DThe IQs of ‘Sub-Saharan’ immigrants to Europe and North America rise over several generations, but never to the same level as ‘Europeans’
- EThe IQs of ‘North East Asians’ remain significantly high several generations after they immigrate to countries in Africa.
4IQ test scores have been found to be rising by around 3 points per decade for some time. This is known as the [blank_start]Flynn[blank_end] effect.
- AFlynn
5James Flynn, the famous New Zealand psychologist, believes that IQ tests measure our:
- AAbility to adapt to different cultures
- BAbility to do ‘puzzles’
- CConcrete, practical reasoning
- DAdaptation to the modern world
- EEmotional intelligence
6James Flynn believes that the IQ ‘gap’ is closing because:
- AThe relative success of ‘East Asians’ at Berkeley has declined rapidly in recent years
- BWesterners previously educated in purely abstract terms are increasingly turning back to a more practical understanding of the world
- CEnvironment is the only determinant of IQ, and as environments become more similar, so do IQ’s
- DAfrican American’s IQs have been rising 50% faster than for other groups
- EVarious concepts of ‘race’ are slowly being eroded as genetics shows us there is no single gene for ‘race’
7Is this question biased? (select all answers that apply)
Moonunit received $0.59 in change from a supermarket purchase. Of the eleven coins she received in change, three were exactly the same. These three coins had to be: (pennies nickels dimes quarters half-dollars)- ANo, if it was asked of Australians seeking a job in America
- BYes, if it was asked of Australians.
- CNo, because it is simply measuring how well we would cope in the world.
- DNo, if it was asked of Americans.
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- Tertiary Education Semester 2, 2015 (PSYC1002) Quiz on Mental abilities MCQ, created by Ani Av on 17/11/2015.
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