How well do IQ scores predict academic and vocational success?

What will be an ideal response?


Modern-day IQ tests are fairly valid measures of academic intelligence in that they predict academic performance. Although they are correlated with occupational attainment, there is debate concerning how well they predict performance within an occupation.

Psychology

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The tip-of-the-tongue experience is related to metacognition because

a. people think about whether they are likely to remember the target word, and this estimate is one kind of metacognitive task. b. people are highly accurate in both their tip-of-the-tongue estimates and their metacognition estimates. c. people consistently underestimate their accuracy on both tip-of-the-tongue tasks and other metacognitive tasks. d. people first give a general estimate of their accuracy, and then they systematically make adjustments to that estimate.

Psychology

Which of the following is NOT necessary for a graph to be complete?

a. phase lines b. data points c. x-axis and y-axis d. behavior change

Psychology

Piaget's formal operational stage of cognitive development is marked by the first appearance of the ability to ____.?

a. ?conserve number and amount b. ?engage in abstract, hypothetical thinking c. ?form mental representations d. ?perform logical operations

Psychology

One could think of the cognitive-behavioral therapies as a method for falsifying _____ beliefs

Fill in the blank with correct word

Psychology