Investigators Detected a Tendency for Those Who Excelled in One

question 90

Multiple Choice

Investigators detected a tendency for those who excelled in one of Thurstone's seven primary mental abilities to also demonstrate high levels of competence in other abilities.This provided some evidence of

• A) savant syndrome.
• B) multiple intelligences.
• C) existential intelligence.
• D) general intelligence.

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Definitions:

Independent Variables

Elements within a model or experiment that are deliberately changed or grouped to assess their effect on variables that depend on them.

Correlated

A measure of the relationship between two variables, indicating how the change in one can predict the change in the other.

Multicollinearity

A statistical phenomenon in which two or more predictor variables in a multiple regression model are highly correlated, leading to difficulties in distinguishing their individual effects on the dependent variable.

Independent Variables

Variables in an experiment or model that are manipulated or categorized to observe their effect on dependent variables.