Your professor hands you a sealed bag of potato chips and asks you to open the bag and take out two scoops of chips. The scoops of chips are analogous to:

a. a sample.
b. a population.
c. a hypothesis.
d. a generalizable scoop.


Answer: A

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According to Cattell, _____ intelligence includes the ability to solve novel problems.

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