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What is NOT one of the four components of emotional intelligence


A)  ability to accurately perceive emotions in themselves and others 
B)  ability to creatively think with their heart 
C)  ability to understand and analyze their emotions 
D)  ability to regulate emotions

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Which group should you study to get the best evidence about the role of genetic factors in intelligence


A)  adopted children and their biological parents 
B)  children raised in poverty, and middle-class children 
C)  people born in different generations since the 1930s 
D)  identical and fraternal twins

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Which of Gardner's categories of intelligence would be most pronounced in someone who is a very successful taxi driver or delivery person


A)  linguistic intelligence
B)  musical intelligence 
C)  logical-mathematical intelligence
D)  spatial intelligence

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Which six-year-old child would be most likely to experience an increase in IQ over the next few years


A)  Darius, who continues living with his loving middle-class biological parents 
B)  Aron, who continues living in an understaffed orphanage 
C)  Ceili, who was recently adopted from an understaffed orphanage by loving middle-class parents 
D)  Bettina, who recently started living in an understaffed orphanage following the death of her parents

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Who developed the first useful intelligence test


A)  James Stanford and Alfred Binet
B)  Francis Galton and Charles Darwin 
C)  Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon
D)  Lewis Terman and Francis Galton

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What has been demonstrated by adoption studies comparing the intelligence of adopted children to their biological parents


A)  There is a greater-than-chance similarity between them. 
B)  Adopted children tend to be most similar to their adoptive parents. 
C)  Adopted children tend to be very similar to their biological mothers. 
D)  There are no consistent similarities between them.

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Convincing evidence for the role of environmental influences on intelligence is provided by studies that compare which groups


A)  children and the biological parents who raised them 
B)  adopted children to their biological parents 
C)  adopted children to their adoptive parents 
D)  identical twins reared together, and fraternal twins reared together

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A lobby group argues that the government should not provide funding for companies that develop environmentally friendly technology,because there is no conclusive evidence that those technologies will help the environment.Which fallacy does this example illustrate


A)  the appeal to knowledge fallacy
B)  the reification fallacy 
C)  the information fallacy
D)  the appeal to ignorance fallacy

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A group of people took a test,and then retook the test a month later.Most people got very similar scores each time.What term should you use to describe that test


A)  accurate
B)  valid 
C)  generalized
D)  reliable

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Klara is mildly intellectually disabled.What would you expect of Klara


A)  She will require assistance with speech development. 
B)  She may generally be perceived as normal outside a school environment. 
C)  She may require lifelong supervision in order to care for herself. 
D)  She will do well in school until just before the end of high school, which is when difficulties will emerge.

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Which type of twins show the strongest correlations between their IQ scores


A)  identical twins reared together
B)  fraternal twins reared apart 
C)  identical twins reared apart
D)  fraternal twins reared together

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According to Joseph Renzulli,what are the three overlapping factors required for achieving "eminence" in one's field


A)  exceptional motivation, exceptional training, high levels of intelligence 
B)  exceptional intelligence, exceptional support from family, exceptional creativity 
C)  exceptional ability, exceptional commitment, exceptional creativity 
D)  exceptional creativity, high levels of extraversion, high levels of practice

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According to Gardner's view of intelligence,which type of intelligence would be pronounced in someone who was a particularly skilled bird-watcher or farmer


A)  intrapersonal intelligence
B)  naturalist intelligence 
C)  bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
D)  spatial intelligence

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If Maria is being tested for her memory capacity and speed of processing,what type of intelligence is being tested


A)  practical intelligence
B)  fluid intelligence 
C)  verbal intelligence
D)  crystallized intelligence

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A majority of experts agree that the heritability of intelligence is approximately 50 percent.What does this mean


A)  Fifty percent of the difference in average intelligence between different ethnic groups is due to genetic inheritance. 
B)  Fifty percent of a person's intelligence is due to genetic inheritance. 
C)  Fifty percent of the variability in intelligence in a population of individuals is due to variations in genetic inheritance. 
D)  Fifty percent of a person's intelligence is due to environmental factors.

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What is a fallacy


A)  cognition that has not been tested through time and place 
B)  an appeal to ignorance 
C)  when someone does something out of character 
D)  a mistake or error in the process of reasoning

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Based on evidence from longitudinal studies of gifted children,what can be stated about the relationship between intelligence and health


A)  High IQ and good health are caused by common genetic mechanisms. 
B)  High IQ and good health are independent factors that predict longevity. 
C)  High IQ predicts greater overall health and longevity. 
D)  High IQ predicts healthy behaviours.

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Who revised the original French intelligence test and renamed it the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale


A)  Lewis Terman
B)  David Wechsler 
C)  James Stanford
D)  Francis Galton

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Tim completed a test that is designed to determine whether he has the potential to be an airline pilot.What type of test did Tim complete


A)  achievement test
B)  aptitude test 
C)  projective test
D)  personality test

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What do we call a symmetrical bell-shaped curve that represents the pattern in which many characteristics,including intelligence,are distributed


A)  standard distribution
B)  typical distribution 
C)  abnormal distribution
D)  normal distribution

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