Pippa Is Taking an Intelligence Test

question 47

Multiple Choice

Pippa is taking an intelligence test. On the particular part of the test she is working on, the examiner reads her a list of numbers. She has to try to remember them and repeat them back in the order in which they were read. Each list is a little bit longer than the last one. Pippa is working on the ____ subtest.

• A) vocabulary
• B) similarities
• C) digit span
• D) mental rotation

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