The Revised Minnesota Paper Formboard is a measure of
A) clerical ability.
B) mechanical comprehension.
C) spatial perception.
D) sensory acuity.
E) psychomotor ability.
The heritability index (h8), which Arthur Jensen estimated as approximately .80 for intelligence,
is equal to
A) variance due to environment/variance due to heredity.
B) variance due to heredity/variance due to heredity and environment.
C) variance due to heredity/variance due to environment.
D) variance due to environment/variance due to heredity and environment.
Which of the following tests is a measure of fine manual movements but not gross manual
movements?
A) Pennsylvania B-manual Worksample
B) Minnesota Rate of Manipulation Test
C) Hand-Tool Dexterity Test
D) Stromberg Dexterity Test
E) Purdue Pegboard
The original ( 1973 ) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures state that, in order to
be a valid predictor of job performance, tests should account for at least __________ of the
knowledge and skills pertaining to that job.
A) 50 B) 25 C) 75 D) 90
Studies which find that the correlation between the IQs of identical twins is between .77 and .88
demonstrate that intelligence is the product of
A) environment. B) heredity.
C) heredity and environment. D) neither heredity nor environment.
Which of the following statements most accurately describes the decision of Chief Justice Berger
in the case of Griggs et al. vs. Duke Power Company?
A) An employee-selection procedure is prohibited if it is unrelated to job performance.
B) An employee-selection procedure should be used only if specified ethnic- and sex-group
quotas are met.
C) An employee-selection procedure should not be used if it excludes any ethnic group.
D) Even if an employee-selection procedure is valid for an ethnic group, it if acts to exclude
members of that group the organization should find an alternative selection procedure.
The correlations among the various components contributing to a general factor of motor ability
are
A) moderate. B) high.
C) low. D) undetermined.
The judicial decision in the landmark court case presided over by Judge Robert Peckham, which
resulted in restrictions on the use of IQ tests for the placement of children in special school
classes for the mentally retarded in California,
A) banned the use of IQ tests in assigning children to classes for the mentally retarded.
B) was judged to be unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
C) was adopted as law by several other states.
D) passed by the U.S. Congress and became federal law.
The fact that motor skills are greatly affected by __________ lowers the validity of tests of these
abilities.
A) heredity B) intelligence C) practice D) faking
Extensive investigations of the relationships of scores on intelligence tests to degree of kinship
have found the highest correlation between the IQs of
A) fraternal twins reared apart. B) identical twins reared together.
C) fraternal twins reared together. D) identical twins reared apart.
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