Binet and Simon designed a test of intellectual abilities in order to

A) provide a quantitative estimate of inherited intellectual potential.
B) distinguish between academic and practical intelligence.
C) identify children likely to have difficulty learning in regular school classes.
D) assess general capacity for goal-directed adaptive behavior.

People who rely on the representativeness heuristic tend to overlook which kind of information?

A) creativity information
B) reaction-time information
C) script information
D) base-rate information

Which of the following may place a child at risk for academic failure in school?

A) Adequate healthcare
B) Reasonable nutrition
C) Regular support from parents
D) Lack of adequate stimulation

Nontraditional students are better at making meaning of theoretical concepts because they have ______.

A) brains that have developed more fully
B) learned the information previously
C) life experience and knowledge of multiple roles
D) an academic focus in general

The tools Freud employed to investigate personality included all of the following except

A) free association.
B) dream analysis.
C) resistances.
D) questionnaires.

A 9-month-old infant who cries when the mother leaves is showing

A) separation anxiety.
B) stranger anxiety.
C) anxious attachment.
D) overdependence.