What evidence argues AGAINST Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences?
a. People with Williams syndrome are much better at language than at other mental abilities.
b. Test scores on language, logic, and spatial reasoning correlate highly with one another.
c. Certain types of brain damage impair a specific skill, such as facial recognition.
d. Monozygotic twins resemble each other more strongly than dizygotic twins do.
b
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According to the text, which influence techniques have historically been most used by car salespeople?
a. the foot-in-the-door and door-in-the-face techniques b. the low-ball and bait-and-switch techniques c. the legitimization-of-paltry-favors and disrupt-then-reframe techniques d. the pique and labeling techniques
Amy is trying to remember her social security number, while registering for school. What technique would help Amy in this process?
a. Stare at the numbers on her social security card to create an icon in her short-term memory. b. Repeat the list of numbers to herself one at a time. c. Rehearse the set of numbers keeping them in the 3 chunks format. d. This is not possible because a social security number is made up of 9 numbers, which is larger than short-term memory capacity.
Research on parenting styles suggest that authoritative parents produce children that are
a. confident and self-reliant. b. prone to become delinquents. c. less mature. d. more impulsive. e. more dependent and needy.
If one of the design goals of a product is that the product be easy to use, then
(a) the user should adopt the designer's conceptual model (b) the designer should assume that the information needed to operate it is in the user's head (c) the designer himself or herself should write the instruction manual (d) the designer should adopt the users' conceptual model (e) the designer should assume that he or she represents the typical user