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People with IQ above 130 are described as what?Read the answer and worked solution →About what share of people have an IQ above 130?Read the answer and worked solution →In intellectual disability, deficits must appear before what age?Read the answer and worked solution →Who followed about 1500 high-IQ children from 1925?Read the answer and worked solution →Remarkable ability in one specific field is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Teachers see giftedness as high ability, high creativity and what else?Read the answer and worked solution →Who wrote The Mismeasure of Man in 1981?Read the answer and worked solution →Gould called IQ and g examples of which fallacy?Read the answer and worked solution →Gould attacked which two ways of measuring intelligence?Read the answer and worked solution →Who wrote The Bell Curve in 1994?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the Flynn effect?Read the answer and worked solution →The Flynn effect is about how many IQ points per decade?Read the answer and worked solution →Modern IQ scales usually set the standard deviation near what?Read the answer and worked solution →Who ran the first stereotype threat experiments in 1995?Read the answer and worked solution →Women scored 70% on a maths exam among women. With two men present, they averaged about what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which scale overtook the Stanford-Binet in popularity in the 1960s?Read the answer and worked solution →What did Binet and Simon stress about intelligence?Read the answer and worked solution →The g factor summarises what among different cognitive tasks?Read the answer and worked solution →Who first proposed the existence of the g factor?Read the answer and worked solution →For which purpose do clinicians still trust IQ scores?Read the answer and worked solution →Who made a pioneering Hindi intelligence test in the 1930s?Read the answer and worked solution →Sternberg criticised using only g to measure intelligence because it...Read the answer and worked solution →Why were the WWI US Army mental tests considered dubious?Read the answer and worked solution →Equally able groups answering one item differently signals what?Read the answer and worked solution →Who first used the word eugenics in 1883?Read the answer and worked solution →Knowledge gained by direct experience is often called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which factor is proposed to explain the Flynn effect?Read the answer and worked solution →A mild fall in IQ scores in developed countries is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Who proposed the two-factor theory of intelligence in 1927?Read the answer and worked solution →In Spearman's theory, what do the s-factors stand for?Read the answer and worked solution →

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People with IQ above 130 are described as what?

  1. Intellectually disabled
  2. Intellectually gifted
  3. Borderline intelligence
  4. Average intelligence
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Correct answer: B. Intellectually gifted

1. Recall the fact: About 2 per cent of people score above 130 and are called intellectually gifted. 2. The option "Intellectually gifted" matches it. 3. Why the others fail: Scores below 70 are linked to intellectual disability. _Source: NCERT Class XII Psychology, Ch 1 Variations in Psychological Attributes (lepy101.pdf), "Assessment of Intelligence"_

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About what share of people have an IQ above 130?

  1. 16 per cent
  2. 25 per cent
  3. 50 per cent
  4. 2 per cent
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Correct answer: D. 2 per cent

1. Recall the fact: Roughly 2 per cent of the population lie above 130. 2. The option "2 per cent" matches it. 3. Why the others fail: Half of people fall in the average range of 90 to 109. 4. Check the stem wording against the fact: only one option satisfies both. _Source: NCERT Class XII Psychology, Ch 1 Variations in Psychological Attributes (lepy101.pdf), "Assessment of Intelligence"_

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In intellectual disability, deficits must appear before what age?

  1. 12 years
  2. 18 years
  3. 15 years
  4. 25 years
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Correct answer: B. 18 years

1. Recall the fact: The developmental period means ages 0 to 18. 2. The option "18 years" matches it. 3. Why the others fail: The other ages are not the stated limit. 4. Check the stem wording against the fact: only one option satisfies both. _Source: NCERT Class XII Psychology, Ch 1 Variations in Psychological Attributes (lepy101.pdf), "Intellectual Deficiency"_

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