A Psychologist Needs to Measure the Intelligence of a Person

question 44

True/False

A psychologist needs to measure the intelligence of a person who has recently immigrated to the United States and who does not speak English. The psychologist should administer the Progressive Matrices test rather than the Stanford-Binet.

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