Early Psychologists, Attempting to Measure Animal Intelligence, Found

question 64

Multiple Choice

Early psychologists, attempting to measure animal intelligence, found

• A) evidence for intelligence only in primates.
• B) evidence for intelligence in vertebrates, but not in invertebrates.
• C) intelligence was directly related to brain size.
• D) animals that seemed very intelligent on some tasks seemed very unintelligent on others.

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Definitions:

NORM.DIST

A function in statistics that returns the normal distribution for a specified mean and standard deviation.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, often used to estimate the precision of a sample mean.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data values from their mean, calculated for the entire population.

Sample Size

The number of observations or items selected from a population to constitute a sample for the purpose of statistical analysis.