Assessing your own beliefs about intelligence, you would likely want to strive to change your beliefs so that you viewed your intelligence as _________
A) genetically based
B) incremental
C) entity
D) tied to race or sex
Answer: B
Rationale: In all, having an incremental view of intelligence is likely to be congruent with increased performance on a variety of intelligence-based measures. Stereotype threat often makes it difficult to perform to your full potential and biological explanations mean that there is relatively little room for improvement.
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a. may not reflect relationships outside of adolescents' nuclear families. b. is based on research conducted only in traditional cultures. c. deals only with male, and not female, adolescents. d. may not apply to adolescents today.
When you made a poor grade on history in high school, you made sure you read the chapters twice before taking the next test
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