OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS

For each of the following questions, four alternatives are given for the answer. Only one of them is correct. Choose the correct alternative.

1. When a six year old child performs the tests of a three year old child only, he is said to be :
   (a) Intelligent
   (b) Highly intelligent
   (c) Dull or idiot
   (d) Gifted

2. Spearman has developed the :
   (a) Theory of mental ability
   (b) Concept of abstract level of intelligence
   (c) Two-type ability theory
   (d) Two-factor theory of intelligence

3. Who developed the concept of “Primary Mental Abilities”?
   (a) A.R. Jensen
   (b) E.L. Thorndike
   (c) J.P. Guilford
   (d) L.L. Thurstone

4. Who has conceived intelligence as “abstract”, “practical” and “social”?
   (a) R. B. Cattell
   (b) A.R. Jensen
   (c) J.P. Guilford
   (d) E.L. Thorndike

5. Wechsler’s first scale of intelligence was developed primarily for :
   (a) Children
   (b) Babies
   (c) Animals
   (d) Adults

6. “Raven’s progressive Matrices (RPM)” is a :
   (a) Culture-bound test
   (b) Test of memory
   (c) Personality test
   (d) Culture fair test

7. Who has developed the “structural model theory” of intelligence?
   (a) B. L. Thorndike
   (b) A. R. Jensen
   (c) R. B. Cattell
   (d) Guilford

8. Thurstone’s factor analysis theory of intelligence lies between the theories of :
   (a) Terman and Wechsler
   (b) E. G. Boring and Galton
   (c) Spearman and Thorndike
   (d) Wechsler and E.G. Boring

9. Who is associated with the Multifactor theory of intelligence?
   (a) E. G. Boring
   (b) Wechsler
   (c) Guilford
   (d) Thurstone

10. The extract quoted from the book “The complete history of the life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe may serve as a very good example of :
    (a) Crystallized intelligence
    (b) Specific factor of intelligence
    (c) General factor of intelligence
    (d) Fluid intelligence

11. Who has regarded intelligence as a capacity of the organism to adjust itself to an increase singly complex environment?
    (a) Guilford
    (b) Jensen
    (c) Spencer
    (d) Gallon

12. Who described the composition of intelligence in terms of intellectual breadth and Intellectual altitude?
    (a) R. B. Cttell
    (b) A. R. Jensen
    (c) L. L. Thurstone
    (d) E. G. Boring

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

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

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

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

17. Non-verbal tests are also called :
    (a) General tests
    (b) Specific tests
    (c) Performance tests
    (d) Reliable tests

18. E.L. Thorndike’s multi factor theory of intelligence is at one extreme of the interpretations regarding the nature of:
    (a) Motor organization
    (b) Intellectual organization
    (c) Mental organization
    (d) Reasoning

19. The two-factor and the group-factor theories emerge from the methods of :
    (a) Psychophysics
    (b) Psychotherapy
    (c) Psychophysiology
    (d) Factor Analysis

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

21. The Stanford revision of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale is derived from the fact that revision as made at Stanford University, under the direction of :
    (a) E.G. Boring
    (b) Wechsler
    (c) Spencer
    (d) L. M. Terman

22. The concept of “Intelligence Quotient” was devised by a German psychologist :
    (a) Spencer
    (b) Stern
    (c) Thurstone
    (d) E. G. Boring

23. The index of an individual’s intellectual development, determined by dividing his mental age y his chronological age and multiplying the result by 100 is known as :
    (a) Creativity Quotient
    (b) Sociability Quotient
    (c) Reliability Quotient
    (d) Intelligence Quotient (I.Q.)

24. Animals do not have :
    (a) Behaviour
    (b) Memory
    (c) Drive
    (d) Abstract intelligence

25. The tests of intelligence developed by Galton mainly dealt with :
    (a) Personality
    (b) Hereditary factors
    (c) Environmental factors
    (d) Perceptual motor skills

26. The I.Q. range of average intelligence is :
    (a) 30-60
    (b) 15-75
    (c) 85-115
    (d) 150-185

27. Culture-free tests of intelligence were developed by :
    (a) Galton
    (b) Spencer
    (c) Cattell
    (d) Wechsler

28. Fluid and crystallized intelligence are the major theoretical components of intellectual activity reposed by :
    (a) R. B. Cattell
    (b) E. G. Boring
    (c) J. S. Bruner
    (d) Cyril Burt

29. Fluid intelligence is a general relation perceiving capacity which represents one’s potential intelligence somewhat independent of :
    (a) Personality and Creativity
    (b) Socialization and Education
    (c) Creativity and Emotion
    (d) Emotion and Motivation

30. Crystallized intelligence reflects much more ones :
    (a) Personality
    (b) Motivation
    (c) Emotion
    (d) Cultural Exposure

31. Piget’s stage-oriented theory conceives of intelligence as :
    (a) An adaptive process
    (b) A personality aspect
    (c) A motivational factor
    (d) A creative factor

32. J.S. Bruner views cognitive development as essentially the evolving use of :
    (a) External representation
    (b) Sensation
    (c) Perception
    (d) Internal representation

33. Which theory of intelligence maintains that intelligence should be measured in terms of such unctions as sensory processing coding strategies, memory and other mental capacities involved in earning and remembering?
    (a) Two-factor theory
    (b) Primary mental abilities
    (c) Information-processing theory
    (d) Structure of the intellect

34. In 1916, Lewis Terman of Stanford University brought out an American version of :
    (a) Thurstone’s test
    (b) Boring’s test
    (c) Spencer’s test
    (d) Binet’s test

35. Computers and Calculators are best examples of :
    (a) Abstract intelligence
    (b) Cognitive ability
    (c) Artificial intelligence
    (d) Primary mental abilities

36. Binet and Terman worked from a notion of intelligence as an overall ability related to :
    (a) Emotion and motivation
    (b) Intelligence and personality
    (c) Abstract reasoning and problem solving
    (d) Reasoning and perceptual speed

37. Mental Age (MA) can be expressed in relation to chronological Age (CA) in order to estimate he :
    (a) Personality
    (b) Motivation
    (c) Reasoning
    (d) Rate of development

38. Who viewed that rote learning ability (Level-I) may be a necessity but not sufficient condition or the emergence of problem-solving (Level-II)?
    (a) E.G. Boring
    (b) J.S. Bruner
    (c) A.R. Jensen
    (d) Cyril Burt

39. The concept of mental age (MA) in adults is :
    (a) Meaningless
    (b) Meaningful
    (c) Related to creativity
    (d) Related to sociability

40. A ratio I.Q. is useful only with :
    (a) Old women
    (b) Old men
    (c) Adults
    (d) Children

41. At the top of the I.Q. distribution, there are individuals who are :
    (a) Idiots
    (b) Imbeciles
    (c) Intellectually gifted
    (d) Morons

42. Very often Psychologists refer to the abilities tested by intelligence and scholastic aptitude tests is :
    (a) Creativity
    (b) Conative abilities
    (c) Cognitive abilities
    (d) Reasoning capacity

43. The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale is arranged by :
    (a) Body weight
    (b) Blood weight
    (c) Hereditary factors
    (d) Age levels

44. Wechsler Scale of intelligence is arranged by :
    (a) Age levels
    (b) Body weight
    (c) Reasoning capability
    (d) Type of items

45. Multi-factor theory of intelligence is other wise known as :
    (a) Two-factor theory of intelligence
    (b) Synthetic theory of intelligence
    (c) Reasoning theory of intelligence
    (d) Crystallized theory of intelligence

46. The first attempt for standardization of mental tests in India was made by :
    (a) Dr. S. M. Mohsin
    (b) V. V. Kamat
    (c) Dr. C.H. Rice
    (d) Dr. Sohen Lal

47. An intelligent person is likely to be attracted more by :
    (a) Difficult and complex tasks
    (b) Simple tasks
    (c) Idiots
    (d) Dull tasks

48. The Terman-Merril Test measures intelligence from the age of :
    (a) 2 years upward to the adult age
    (b) 10 years upward to the adult age
    (c) 5 years upward to the adult age
    (d) 13 years upward to the adult age

49. The Binet type tests of intelligence are called :
    (a) Group tests
    (b) Individual tests
    (c) Culture free tests
    (d) Therapeutic tests

50. Who said that intelligence is an “innate general cognitive ability”?
    (a) E. L. Thorndike
    (b) Cyril Burt
    (c) R. B. Cattell
    (d) Daniel Defoe

51. Educational Psychologists have observed that the correlation between I.Q. and academic success :
    (a) Is highest in primary schools
    (b) Is highest in colleges
    (c) Is highest in high schools
    (d) Is lowest in primary schools

52. The Stanford-Binet Scales are referred to as individual tests because :
    (a) They must be administered to groups
    (b) They must be administered to abnormal people
    (c) They must be administered to animals
    (d) They must be administered to one person at a time

53. In an intelligence test, a 10-year old girl scored the I.Q. of 120, what is her mental age (MA)?
    (a) 13
    (b) 15
    (c) 12
    (d) 10

54. The mentally gifted (I.Q. above 130) comprise about :
    (a) 20 per cent of the population
    (b) 25 per cent of the population
    (c) 2 per cent of the population
    (d) 40 per cent of the population

55. Spearman’s basic assumption is that all mental tasks require two kinds of ability and these are:
    (a) Crystallized intelligence and fluid intelligence
    (b) Intellectual breadth and intellectual altitude
    (c) Associative ability and cognitive ability
    (d) General ability and specific ability

56. Binet was a/an:
    (a) German psychologist
    (b) Russian psychologist
    (c) French psychologist
    (d) English psychologist

57. The first attempt for standardising mental tests in India was made by Dr. C.H. Rice of :
    (a) Hyderabad
    (b) New Delhi
    (c) Bhubaneswar
    (d) Lahore

58. Who was the major force in bringing the Binet test into the mainstream of academic psychology in America?
    (a) R. B. Cattell
    (b) A.R. Jensen
    (c) E. G. Boring
    (d) Lewis Terman

59. Which intelligence test provides three types of intelligence scores: a verbal I.Q. a performance Q. and a composite I.Q. based on all sub-tests combined?
    (a) Wechsler’s Scale
    (b) Binet-Simon Scale
    (c) Raven’s Progressive Matrices
    (d) Thurstone’s Scale

60. Who viewed that intelligence is an adaptive process that involves an interplay of biological alteration and interaction with the environment?
    (a) Jean Piaget
    (b) E.L. Thorndike
    (c) Kurt Lewin
    (d) E. G. Boring

61. The deviation I.Q. expresses a person’s relative intellectual status within his or her age group by measure derived from :
    (a) F-Scores
    (b) T-Scores
    (c) Z-Scores
    (d) Standard Deviation (SD)

62. Arnold Lucious Gessel (1880-1961) viewed his tests as measuring not intelligence but the child’s level of development. The score an infant obtains is therefore called :
    (a) Intelligence Quotient (I.Q.)
    (b) Developmental Quotient (D.Q.)
    (c) Fluid intelligence Scores
    (d) Abstract intelligence Scores

63. The term “intelligence” is derived from a Latin word, framed by Cicero to translate a Greek word used by Aristotle to include :
    (a) All cognitive processes
    (b) Specific cognitive processes
    (c) All affective processes
    (d) Specific affective processes

64. Who defines “intelligence” as the power of apprehending the relationship ?
    (a) Spearman
    (b) Wyatt
    (c) Cattell
    (d) Jensen

65. Which view of intelligence held that intelligence was one of the innate faculties along with earning, thinking and remembering etc?
    (a) Monarchic view
    (b) Oligarchic view
    (c) Gestalt view
    (d) Behaviouristic view

66. The first systematic theory on the nature of intelligence was put forward by the British psychologist :
    (a) A. R. Jensen
    (b) Carl Spearman
    (c) R. B. Cattell
    (d) J.P. Guilford

67. Who called intelligence as our general cognitive ability?
    (a) Terman
    (b) Galton
    (c) Wechsler
    (d) Spencer

68. Who defined intelligence as the global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think aurally and to deal effectively with the environment?
    (a) Binet
    (b) Galton
    (c) Wechsler
    (d) Spencer

69. Two-factor theory of intelligence was advanced by :
    (a) Galton
    (b) Carl Spearman
    (c) Spencer
    (d) Terman

70. The deviation I.Q. expresses a person’s relative intellectual status within his or her age group by measure derived from :
    (a) F-Scores
    (b) T-Scores
    (c) Z-Scores
    (d) Standard Deviation (SD)

71. Arnold Lucious Gessel (1880-1961) viewed his tests as measuring not intelligence but the child’s level of development. The score an infant obtains is therefore called :
    (a) Intelligence Quotient (I.Q.)
    (b) Developmental Quotient (D.Q.)
    (c) Fluid intelligence Scores
    (d) Abstract intelligence Scores

72. The term “intelligence” is derived from a Latin word, framed by Cicero to translate a Greek word used by Aristotle to include :
    (a) All cognitive processes
    (b) Specific cognitive processes
    (c) All affective processes
    (d) Specific affective processes

73. Who defines “intelligence” as the power of apprehending the relationship ?
    (a) Spearman
    (b) Wyatt
    (c) Cattell
    (d) Jensen

74. Which view of intelligence held that intelligence was one of the innate faculties along with earning, thinking and remembering etc?
    (a) Monarchic view
    (b) Oligarchic view
    (c) Gestalt view
    (d) Behaviouristic view

75. The first systematic theory on the nature of intelligence was put forward by the British psychologist :
    (a) A. R. Jensen
    (b) Carl Spearman
    (c) R. B. Cattell
    (d) J.P. Guilford

76. Who called intelligence as our general cognitive ability?
    (a) Terman
    (b) Galton
    (c) Wechsler
    (d) Spencer

77. Who defined intelligence as the global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think aurally and to deal effectively with the environment?
    (a) Binet
    (b) Galton
    (c) Wechsler
    (d) Spencer

78. Two-factor theory of intelligence was advanced by :
    (a) Galton
    (b) Carl Spearman
    (c) Spencer
    (d) Terman

79. The first Binet-Simon scale for measuring intelligence was constructed in :
    (a) 1907
    (b) 1905
    (c) 1910
    (d) 1940

80. The concept of “Mental Age” was developed by :
    (a) L. M. Terman
    (b) William Stern
    (c) Alfred Binet
    (d) R. B. Cattell

81. The very term Intelligence Quotient (I.Q.) was introduced by :
    (a) A.R. Jensen
    (b) J.P. Guilford
    (c) William Stern
    (d) L. M. Terman

82. In a Uzgiris and J. Mc V. Hunt (1975) developed a set of six developmental scales intended to ensure “progressive levels of cognitive organization” in the :
    (a) First two years of life
    (b) First three years of life
    (c) First four years of life
    (d) First five years of life

83. If a child’s chronological age (CA) is 8 and his mental age (MA) is 9, his I.Q. will be :
    (a) 112.50
    (b) 137.50
    (c) 120.50
    (d) 113.50

84. If a child’s chronological age (CA) is equal to his mental age (MA), then his I.Q. will be :
    (a) 110
    (b) 100
    (c) 112
    (d) 115

85. Thurstone’s theory of intelligence is popularly known as :
    (a) Multiple factor theory
    (b) Group factor theory
    (c) Two factor theory
    (d) Sampling theory

86. Bhatia’s test of intelligence is a modified version of :
    (a) Thurstone’s test of intelligence
    (b) Stanford-B met Test
    (c) Wechslers performance battery tests
    (d) Binet-Simen Scale

87. Bhatia’s test of intelligence is basically designed :
    (a) To test the rural illiterate population of India
    (b) To test the urban illiterate population of India
    (c) To test the urban literate population of India
    (d) To test the urban literate population of England

88. In the famous book “Hereditary Genious”, the author has emphasized biological heredity as the only factor that determines individual differences in intelligence. Who was the author?
    (a) Arthur Jensen
    (b) L. L. Thurstone
    (c) Sir Francis Galton
    (d) E. G. Boring

89. The first person who devised systematic tests to measure intelligence of children was :
    (a) Lewin Terman
    (b) Alfred Binet
    (c) David Wechsler
    (d) A. R. Jensen

90. Psychologists use WAIS to measure the intelligence of :
    (a) Children
    (b) Adults
    (c) Both adult and children
    (d) Females only

91. Scientific measurement of intelligence was started by :
    (a) L. L. Thurstone
    (b) Lewin Terman
    (c) Alfred Binet
    (d) A. R. Jensen

92. Guilford’s cubical model provides for :
    (a) 150 factors of intelligence
    (b) 120 factors of intelligence
    (c) 125 factors of intelligence
    (d) 130 factors of intelligence

93. Guilford’s concept of intelligence includes what he calls :
    (a) Creative thinking
    (b) Divergent Thinking
    (c) Abstract Thinking
    (d) Convergent Thinking

94. Vernon has proposed that elements of G-factor theory and the multi-factor theories can be mined to form a/an :
    (a) Monarchic theory
    (b) Unitary theory
    (c) Hierarchical theory
    (d) Anarchic theory

95. Who viewed that intelligence is an adaptive process that involves an interplay of biological maturation and interaction with the environment?
    (a) David Wechsler
    (b) Jean Piaget
    (c) Lewis Terman
    (d) Merrill

96. The concept of I.Q. (Intelligence Quotient) was proposed by William Stern in the year :
    (a) 1914
    (b) 1912
    (c) 1900
    (d) 1920

97. The concept of “Mental Age” (MA) is meaningless for :
    (a) Girls
    (b) Adults
    (c) Children
    (d) Boys

98. A process-theorist sees intellectual development partly as a growing reliance on internal representation. According to him, babies have a highly action-oriented form of intelligence. Who is the theorist ?
    (a) Jean Paget
    (b) Jerome Bruner
    (c) Lewis Terman
    (d) Robert Sternberg

99. The concept of “deviation I.Q.” was devised by :
    (a) David Wechsler
    (b) Jean Piaget
    (c) Jerome Bruner
    (d) Lewis Terman

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