Sex differences in intelligence - Quiz
Sex differences in intelligence
  • 1. What is the relationship between brain physiology differences and intellect between sexes?
A) Differences in brain structure cause significant IQ gaps.
B) They do not necessarily relate to differences in intellect.
C) They directly determine IQ differences.
D) Larger brain volume proves higher intelligence.
  • 2. How do the average IQs of men and women compare?
A) Women have significantly higher IQs.
B) Men have significantly higher IQs.
C) Men and women have equal IQs.
D) IQ differences correlate strongly with brain size.
  • 3. In men, which brain regions correlate with IQ?
A) Only the frontal lobe.
B) Frontal and parietal lobes.
C) Occipital and parietal lobes.
D) Broca's area and temporal lobes.
  • 4. Which brain regions correlate with IQ in women?
A) Parietal and occipital lobes.
B) Frontal lobe and Broca's area.
C) Only the parietal lobe.
D) Frontal and temporal lobes.
  • 5. What features allow women to compensate for smaller brain size?
A) Greater neuronal efficiency.
B) Higher white matter integrity.
C) Increased brain volume in the occipital lobe.
D) Cortical thickness, complexity, and surface area.
  • 6. How much of the variance in individual intelligence is explained by brain size?
A) 6 percent.
B) 15 percent.
C) 50 percent.
D) 1 percent.
  • 7. How much of the variance in individual intelligence is explained by cortical thickness?
A) 5 percent.
B) 12 percent.
C) 8 percent.
D) 20 percent.
  • 8. What did the meta-analysis of 148 samples conclude regarding brain size and IQ?
A) Brain size is a reliable predictor of IQ.
B) It is not warranted to interpret brain size as an isomorphic proxy for intelligence.
C) Brain size accounts for the majority of IQ variance.
D) There is a strong correlation between brain size and IQ test performance.
  • 9. According to Lise Eliot et al. (2021), what is the difference between males and females in verbal, spatial, or emotion processing?
A) Males perform better in spatial processing only.
B) Significant differences in all categories.
C) Females perform better in verbal processing only.
D) No difference in overall abilities.
  • 10. What factor, besides biology, is suggested to influence sex differences in math scores?
A) Differences in neuroanatomy.
B) Gender inequality in social roles.
C) Genetic predisposition.
D) Differences in total brain volume.
  • 11. How did parents historically view a son's math achievement versus a daughter's?
A) Both as a result of school instruction only.
B) Both as natural skills.
C) Son's as natural skill; daughter's as hard work.
D) Daughter's as natural skill; son's as hard work.
  • 12. What did a 2008 National Science Foundation study find regarding girls and math tests?
A) Math performance is entirely dependent on gender.
B) Girls perform significantly better than boys.
C) Girls perform as well as boys.
D) Girls significantly underperform compared to boys.
  • 13. What is the trend regarding the SAT math gap since 1975?
A) The gap has widened.
B) The gap has remained constant.
C) The gap has disappeared entirely.
D) The gap has shrunk.
  • 14. In the 2018 PISA exam, how many countries showed no statistically significant difference in math between genders?
A) 39.5 percent.
B) 50 percent.
C) 75 percent.
D) 10 percent.
  • 15. What did a 2008 meta-analysis in Science find regarding mathematical capabilities of males and females?
A) Significant advantages for females.
B) Increasingly diverging capabilities.
C) Significant advantages for males.
D) No statistically significant differences.
  • 16. What is 'stereotype threat' in the context of math performance?
A) A factor implicated in performance differences on some tests.
B) A biological trait determining math ability.
C) A method to improve standardized testing.
D) A formal curriculum requirement.
  • 17. What did the 2011 meta-analysis note about complex problem solving?
A) There was no difference whatsoever.
B) Females significantly outperformed males.
C) Males outperformed females in all age groups.
D) A small difference favoring males existed in high school.
  • 18. Which task area is typically associated with better performance in males?
A) Vocabulary
B) Mental rotation of objects
C) Reading comprehension
D) Speech production
  • 19. Which specific verbal task shows females performing significantly higher?
A) Visual-spatial reasoning
B) Essay writing
C) Working memory capacity
D) Inductive reasoning
  • 20. According to the text, why might literature on sex differences in intelligence be inconsistent?
A) The type of testing used varies.
B) Researchers are biased.
C) The sample sizes are always too small.
D) The definition of gender changes over time.
  • 21. Which specific ability favors females according to the 2022 meta-analysis?
A) Spatial perception
B) Working memory
C) Processing speed
D) Inductive reasoning
  • 22. According to Feingold (1992), on which test did males show more variability than females?
A) Associative memory
B) Quantitative reasoning
C) Perceptual speed
D) Reading comprehension
  • 23. Which of these did Hedges and Nowell find to be an exception where more males were not observed among high-scoring individuals?
A) Spatial visualisation
B) General knowledge
C) Quantitative reasoning
D) Reading comprehension
  • 24. What was the average male-to-female variance ratio in mathematics performance found by Lindberg et al. (2010)?
A) 1.34
B) 0.88
C) 1.07
D) 1.50
  • 25. How did Lindberg et al. (2010) characterize the variance between males and females in mathematics?
A) Significantly higher in males
B) Completely identical
C) Significantly higher in females
D) Nearly equivalent
  • 26. What percentage of boys in OECD countries failed to reach a reading proficiency level of 2?
A) 28%
B) 5%
C) 40%
D) 15%
  • 27. What kind of spatial memory advantage do women demonstrate?
A) Spatial location memory
B) Horizontal assessment
C) Judgment of line angles
D) Fine-grained metric positional reconstruction
  • 28. What does the meta-analysis suggest as a possible cause for sex differences in spatial tasks if not prenatal androgen exposure?
A) Genetic mutations specific to one sex.
B) Androgen exposure at a different life stage like mini-puberty or different socialization.
C) Schooling environments alone.
D) Dietary differences in childhood.
  • 29. According to the 2014 meta-analysis in Psychological Bulletin, which group outperformed the other in teacher-assigned school marks?
A) Females
B) Males
C) There was no difference
D) Results were inconclusive
  • 30. Who publicly disputed the idea that smaller brain size equated to intellectual inferiority?
A) Leta Hollingworth
B) William A. Hammond
C) Lewis Terman
D) Helen H. Gardener
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