Which theorist has explicitly named creativity as a type of intelligence?
a. Skinner
b. Gardner
c. Binet
d. Sternberg
Ques. 2What word best describes a schema?
a. bottom-up
b. decoding
c. organization
d. strategy
Ques. 3Which of the following would be evidence against Gardner's theory?
a. Students are often high in one intelligence and low in another.
b. Intelligence can be identified with specific brain areas.
c. Multiple intelligences can be developed.
d. At least some of the intelligences are highly intercorrelated.
Ques. 4Which of the following is true of multiple intelligences theory?
a. There are ten distinct intelligences.
b. The entire theory is based on work done with prodigies and savants.
c. It is a hierarchical model of intelligence.
d. It is the only theory that treats intelligence as a plural.
Ques. 5Decrements to IQ are associated with exposure, in utero, to:
a. asbestos.
b. radon.
c. perchlorate.
d. alcohol.
Ques. 6Among canal boat children, IQ declined steadily with age. This is most likely because:
a. they rarely attended school.
b. their behavior was disruptive.
c. they had very poor nutrition.
d. they experienced great poverty.
Ques. 7Sensory memory and short term memory differ from long term and executive memory
in that the former are characterized by
a. capacity limitations
b. information is always processed consciously
c. access depends on the organization of information
d. all of the above
Ques. 8What is a rationale (one consistent with data) for believing that IQ can increase across
generations?
a. Height has increased and its heritability is lower than is IQs.
b. Height has increased and its heritability is higher than is IQs.
c. Height has increased and its heritability is about the same as IQs.
d. Height has decreased and its heritability is lower than is IQs.
Ques. 9Which is the best example of semantic knowledge?
a. giving a definition of love
b. a special memory from your high school prom
c. solving division problems
d. verbatim memory for a famous speech
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