Crystallized intelligence consists of ________
a. the capacity for deductive reasoning.
b. cognitive skills and specific knowledge learned over a lifetime.
c. the ability to use new information to solve problems.
d. inherited predispositions to process information in certain ways.
Answer: b
You might also like to view...
________ does not change the fact that mental disorders are influenced by genes, but it may help us think more broadly, creatively, and accurately about possible genetic mechanisms
a. Biological science b. Critical thinking c. Psychobiology d. Genetic research
A child is punished and temporarily stops his or her well-established bad behavior. However, the child soon goes back to acting badly. This is probably because __________
a) the effects of punishment have habituated. b) punishment is known only to temporarily suppress or inhibit a behavior. c) the bad behavior has spontaneously recovered. d) the conditional emotional response to the punishment has generalized to another behavior.