When Alaina is working on her bicycle, she brings her entire tool kit out on the driveway and starts pulling wrenches from it at random, trying them until she finds one that fits. Alaina's approach when she is working on her bicycle could be BEST described as
a. alternate outcomes analysis.
b. working backward.
c. trial and error.
d. forming subgoals.
C
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Why would the cortex of highly intelligent children show a later thinning by the age of 19?
A. The whole brain shrinks in size, not just the cortex, to allow new connections to form. B. Given that there is limited space within the skull, the thinning allows for growth in other areas of the brain, such as the medulla. C. There is less learning at this time of life compared to early childhood, and therefore less need for neural connections. D. Those neural connections that are unused may die off to make the cortex more efficient in its functions.
According to triarchic theory, person with "street smarts" possesses high levels of _____ intelligence
a. creative b. analytical c. socioemotional d. practical
Some theorists suggest that dissociative identity disorder is an extreme subtype of a. dissociative amnesia
b. obsessive-compulsive disorder. c. posttraumatic stress disorder. d. antisocial personality disorder.
Tate, who has hateful, aggressive impulses toward an important person in his life, accuses the other person of having exactly those feelings toward him. Freudians would label this action as
a. projection. b. repression. c. reaction formation. d. regression.