Imagine discovering a previously unknown group of people who value skills related to surviving in the wild. Tests of these skills should be included in an intelligence test for this group of people because __________
a) it would provide a measure of their ability to interact effectively in their environment
b) the notion of intelligence would not apply to their culture
c) existing intelligence tests do not measure adaptive capabilities
d) intelligence tests should include evaluations of people in their natural environments
Answer: A
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a. The child needs more experience with moral dilemmas before postconventional reasoning will appear. b. Postconventional morality requires the ability to engage in conservation. c. Postconventional morality requires the abilities of formal operational thinking. d. It is not until that age that morality is part of one's formal education.
Group cohesion is determined by:
A. the arousal-cost-reward model B. the phenomenon called the risky shift C. how much group members perceive that they share common attributes D. formal rules used to obtain compliance from members of the group
The text suggests that enhanced perceptual accuracy would be achieved through
a. unconscious transference. b. actively attending to stimuli. c. attempting to do three or four things simultaneously. d. altered states of consciousness.
A woman believes that she is suffering from a serious stomach or intestinal disease because she feels full after eating and some foods don't agree with her. Repeated visits to doctors have indicated that she is in good health and has no evidence of disease. The woman is likely to receive a diagnosis of
a. conversion disorder. c. hypochondriasis. b. pain disorder. d. malingering.