Louis Terman, one of the original developers of the Stanford-Binet test, began a study in the 1920s of 1,500 children with exceptionally high IQ scores and as compared to the control group, these"Termites," as they were referred to, ____

a. had a great deal of personal distress and were often depressed, anxious, and manifested high hostility towards others
b. had a great deal of educational and occupational success, with dozens of patents and hundreds of books
c. had a higher rate of alcoholism, divorce, and mental disorders
d. were similar in few ways, illustrating that IQ has very little predictive value


Answer: B

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