Assessing your own beliefs about intelligence, you would likely want to strive to change your beliefs so that you viewed your intelligence as _________
A) genetically based
B) incremental
C) entity
D) tied to race or sex
Answer: B
Rationale: In all, having an incremental view of intelligence is likely to be congruent with increased performance on a variety of intelligence-based measures. Stereotype threat often makes it difficult to perform to your full potential and biological explanations mean that there is relatively little room for improvement.
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A) upward. B) to the right. C) to the left. D) both A and B E) both A and C
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