Guilford, in his structure-of-intellect model, judged that there are 180 basic mental abilities by
a. keeping his theory as simple as possible.
b. calculating the mixes of contents/operations/products.
c. doing "armchair theorizing," thinking up possibilities.
d. surveying other experts and averaging their responses.
B
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Christian doctrine dominated Western philosophy before the seventeenth century. According to
this view of human nature, children were born a. with innate goodness. b. as blank slates. c. with an immoral nature. d. with the traits of their parents.
Which statement accurately reflects the findings of follow-up research on preoperational thought?
A) Piagetian problems contained too many familiar elements. B) Piaget correctly determined that preschoolers are cognitively deficient. C) Piaget missed many naturally occurring instances of effective reasoning by preschoolers. D) Preschoolers rarely think that magic accounts for events they otherwise cannot explain.