A student has just about finished writing a term paper on the scientific study of intelligence and now must come up with a concluding statement. If he wants to draw a conclusion with which most psychologists would agree,
he should say that
a. human intelligence can be represented by a single numerical score.
b. intelligence has many components that should be separately assessed.
c. there are several distinct kinds of intelligence, across different domains of experience.
d. there is a difference of opinion about the nature of intelligence.
Answer: d. there is a difference of opinion about the nature of intelligence.
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