Match the Definition to the Term

question 29

Multiple Choice

Match the definition to the term.
-two-factor theory of intelligence

• A)concept that describes the difference between what a person is intellectually ca-pable of on his or her own and what is possible with the mild guidance from someone who is more capable
• B)four major sequential steps between infancy and late adolescence,each one in-volving the acquisition of new strategies and ways of thinking that permit the so-lution of previously unsolvable problems
• C)term for three ways of conceptualizing,or mentally representing,material being taught which parallel the Piagetian stages of cognitive development
• D)the observation that over the past century,as new revisions of intelligence tests have been developed,subjects have been getting "smarter" (as measured by aver-age performance on intelligence test items)at an impressively steady rate
• E)theory that the performance of all intellectual tasks requires both a single common factor,called general intelligence (g),and a second,specific factor (s)which is unique to the task

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Definitions:

Brain

The organ located in the head of an organism that coordinates its actions and sensory information by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body.

Auditory Nerve

A nerve in the inner ear that transmits sound information from the cochlea to the brain.

Neurons

Specialized cells in the nervous system that transmit information via electrical and chemical signals.

Temporal Lobe

A region of the cerebral cortex responsible for processing auditory information and encoding memory.