According to Robert Sternberg, _______________ is best described as the ability to use information to address real-world problems
A) analytical intelligence
B) creative intelligence
C) practical intelligence
D) general intelligence
Answer: C
Rationale: According to Robert Sternberg's successful intelligence theory, practical intelligence is the ability to address real-world problems that are encountered in daily life, especially those that occur in an individual's specific work context and family life.
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When people from collectivistic cultures are evaluated with Kohlberg's dilemmas of moral reasoning, they
a. rarely rise about the preconventional level. b. become "cognitively short-circuited" into the Oedipal/Electra complex. c. are judged as reasoning at the conventional level and emphasizing loyalty toward the members of the group. d. are rated as postconventional reasoners, regardless of the naivete of their cognitions.
An apparent, but non-existent, relationship between two distinctive events or stimuli is
termed a(n) a. illusion of outgroup homogeneity. b. false consensus effect. c. base-rate fallacy. d. self-fulfilling prophecy. e. illusory correlation.
The humanistic approach toward psychology emphasizes
a. the positive side of human nature. b. the deterministic nature of human environments. c. unconscious motivations. d. stimulus-response relationships in humans. e. our brain biochemistry.
According to Moffitt (1993, 2003), neuropsychological deficits are associated with which type of delinquency?
a. Life-course-persistent b. Hedonistic-social c. Adolescence-limited d. Bio-psychological