Intelligence

In Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence, the ability to use one’s capability in a specific situation is ________ intelligence, while the ability to apply information one has learned from the world is ________ intelligence.

• componential ; experiential

• experiential; contextual

• contextual; experiential

• experiential; componential

According to Spearman, our ability to perform any and all cognitive tasks is most dependent on

• crystallized intelligence

• s factor

• fluid intelligence

• g factor

Garner argued that conventional views of intelligence were limiting, and should include the idea that there are __________ intelligence.

• Single

• General

• multiple

• functional

The ‘primary mental abilities’ theory proposed by Thurstone.

• acknowledged that some tests can be grouped such as ‘verbal’ and ‘spatial’

• emphasized the differences between abilities instead of common elements of all measures

• included seven major types of ability

• all of the above

Which of the following theory emphasized the differences between the ability to solve novel problems and learned knowledge?

• Cattell’s fluid and crystallized intelligence

• Spearman’s general intelligence

• Thurstone’s primary mental abilities

• Gardner’s multiple intelligences

Spongebob can't remember how to man the register even if Squidward just thought him how. Which intelligence may be impaired?

• universal intelligence

• fluid intelligence

• interpersonal intelligence

• crystallized intelligence

You have a high verbal/linguistic intelligence, so you have been assigned as a tour guide for a nature walk in the local park. You will be teaching tour groups about protecting the natural plant life in the park, so you have to have pictures of the plants that appear earlier and later in the year. You can choose an assistant to help you prepare and brief the pictures. If the potential assistants possessed the intelligences listed in options A-D, which would be most helpful to you?

• Naturalist; Visual/Spatial; Interpersonal

• Naturalist; Bodily/Kinesthetic; Interpersonal

• Visual/Spatial; Logical/Mathematical; Intrapersonal

• Naturalist; Visual/Spatial; Intrapersonal

Are we born with a fixed amount of intelligence?

• True

• False

According to Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligence's, skill at putting puzzles together, molding sculptures, or any other task that requires the person to understand the physical space that surrounds them.

• Logical

• Spatial

• Intrapersonal

• Interpersonal

How did J. P. Guilford define intelligence?

• Structures within the brain are able to process different types of information in different ways

• It is a construct that is unchanging no mater what the individual

• He said that intelligence was a product of the mind rather than something produced by any structure of the brain

• He was interested in intelligence transference in learning