According to the text, a positive feature of Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences is
A. that it has led to the development of intelligence tests that allow test takers to be creative.
B. the intuitive appeal of the underlying concept.
C. that it focuses on cases of brain damage, as well as of intellectual disability and giftedness.
D. the empirical support it has received.
Answer: A
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What will be an ideal response?
Your book discusses the memory functioning of patient H.M. who underwent brain surgery to relieve severe epileptic seizures. H.M.'s case has been extremely informative to psychologists by demonstrating that
A. long-term memory can operate normally while short-term memory is impaired. B. impairment of one memory system (long-term or short-term) necessarily leads to deficits in the functioning of the other. C. a double dissociation exists for short-term and long-term memory. D. short-term memory can operate normally while long-term memory is impaired.
Reality testing is defined as
a. obtaining additional information to check the accuracy of one's perceptions. b. an initial guess regarding how to organize a stimulus pattern. c. changes in perception that can be attributed to prior experience. d. the well-established patterns of perceptual organization and attention.
According to Piaget's theory, ____ is used to describe the difficulty children often demonstrate in taking another person’s perspective.
A. over-regularization B. egocentrism C. fast-mapping D.alert inactivity