ch 8 psychology – Flashcards

The book The Bell Curve argues that the average 15-point difference between Caucasian Americans' and African Americans' IQ is primarily due to

When a person exhibits success facing everyday, real-world demands such as those found in on-the-job professional demands, Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence would suggest that person was demonstrating

Alice is a 52-year-old typist working in the same law firm as 28-year-old Juliet. Both are considered excellent at their job, even though Alice is older and has some delay in her reaction time. What is it that permits Alice to perform her job the same as Juliet? Alice has developed selective optimization, whereby she can look further into the material to compensate for her typing time.

What is the term that Binet developed for the typical intelligence level found for people at a given chronological age?

Recent findings show that nationally in the U.S., twice as many African American students as Caucasian American students are classified as mildly mentally retarded, which is a difference that experts attribute to

What is the term for the capacity to understand the world, think with rationality, and use resources effectively when faced with challenges?

Skills that underlie the accurate assessment, evaluation, expression, and regulation of feeling are referred to as

Which of the following is the term for an approach to education through which students are kept at grade level but are enrolled in special programs and given individual activities to allow greater depth of study on a given topic?

Which of the following is the term for an educational approach in which exceptional children are integrated to the extent possible into the traditional educational system and are provided with a broad range of educational alternatives?

Some developmentalists suggest that two kinds of intelligence exist. What is the term for intelligence that reflects information processing capabilities, reasoning, and memory?

For most children, ________ is(are) reasonable predictors of school performance.