An example of Sternberg's practical intelligence is:
a) academic achievement only.
b) knowing when to plant corn.
c) having interpersonal and emotional skills.
d) learning how to write clearly.
ANS: B, This is something that might not be readily available in a textbook, but a farmer who knows his or her craft would be able to make this decision with high accuracy.
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a. The test has not yet been standardized on a large, representative population. b. The test does not measure what it claims to measure. c. People who score high one time will score only average the next time. d. People who score high one time will score below average the next time.
Which of the following correctly lists the order of the three processes of memory?
A. Acquisition, extinction, and spontaneous recovery B. Bottom-up processing, selective attention, and top-down processing C. Receiving information from the senses, organizing and storing the information, and retrieving the information from storage D. The unconditioned stimulus, the conditioned stimulus, and the conditioned response
Miriam has been suffering from numbness, weakness, and partial paralysis. Miriam's doctor told her that her immune system has attacked and destroyed the myelin in her body, causing her to have
a. rheumatoid arthritis. b. multiple sclerosis. c. Huntington's disease. d. muscular dysthrophy.
In an experiment by Amsel and Roussel (1952), rats were sometimes fed in one goal box and then allowed to run to a second goal box where they were also fed. On other trials they received nothing in the first goal box, but then were fed in the second goal box. On the latter trials the rats:
a. ran slower to the second goal box b. refused to eat in the second goal box c. ran faster to the second goal box d. ran at the same speed as in the trials where they were fed at the first goal box