Question 1

A situation, event, experience, or other condition that affects a person negatively is called a _____.

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Question 2

The type of intelligence most valued in college and graduate school is _____.

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Question 3

The brain is protected from most viruses by a so-called _____, but a few viruses destroy neurons.

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Question 4

The accumulation of facts and information that comes with experience and education is called _____ intelligence.

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Question 5

Major neurocognitive disorder, which describes thinking that is so erratic or memory so impaired that normal life is impossible, rarely occurs until after age _____.

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Question 6

According to _____, the g factor of intelligence can be inferred from various abilities, such as vocabulary, memory, and reasoning.

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Question 7

Efforts to find specific genes or abilities that comprise what Spearman called _____ have not succeeded.

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Question 8

According to Sternberg, _____ intelligence involves the capacity to be intellectually flexible and innovative.

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Question 9

The drop in _____ levels of older men is known as andropause.

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Question 10

_____ refers to the problems associated with a decrease in testosterone.

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Question 11

The first cross-sequential study of adult intelligence, which began in 1956 and has been repeated every seven years, is called the _____.

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Question 12

Hunt contends that nations with the most advanced economies and greatest national wealth are those that make best use of _____.

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Question 13

The steady rise in average IQ across many generations is known as the _____.

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Question 14

The procedure in which several ova are surgically removed from the ovary and combined with sperm in a lab dish, and then one or more of the resulting blastocysts are inserted into a woman's uterus is called _____.

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Question 15

Scores on items measuring _____ intelligence, which involves thinking quickly, decrease with age.

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Question 16

To combat the symptoms of the natural decline in estrogen or testosterone, some adults have turned to _____, although studies indicate this is not without risk.

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Question 17

According to Sternberg, the intellectual skills used in everyday problem solving are part of _____ intelligence.

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Question 18

A person who is quick at intellectual puzzles and creative with words and numbers is someone with _____ intelligence.

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Question 19

To compensate for the effects of retesting in longitudinal research, Schaie developed a new research design called _____ research.

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Question 20

The age of natural menopause is affected primarily by _____.

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Quiz 4: The First Two Years: the Social World