A researcher wants to study the link between test difficulty and self esteem by giving some people an easy test and others a hard test and then assessing whether these groups differ in self esteem

Vanna's mother is ill and Vanna is feeling overwhelmed and sad. To cope with this stress of her mother's illness, Vanna has been writing her feelings down in a journal. Vanna is using __________

a) problem-focused coping. b) emotion-focused coping. c) distraction. d) reappraisal.

According to Sternberg,

A) the gap between middle-SES and low-SES children—about 9 points—accounts for some of the ethnic differences in IQ, but not all. B) each intelligence has a unique biological basis, a distinct course of development, and different expert, or "end-state," performances. C) flexible attention, memory, and reasoning strategies are as important as efficient thinking in predicting IQ. D) intelligence tests can easily underestimate, and even overlook, the intellectual strengths of some children, especially ethnic minorities.