Although Sam Is Growing Up in the Inner City, He

question 440

Multiple Choice

Although Sam is growing up in the inner city, he views the knowledge and skills he is learning in high school to be his "ticket" out of poverty. According to Robert Sternberg, Sam believes which of the following types of intelligence is the most important?

• A)practical intelligence
• B)analytic intelligence
• C)interpersonal intelligence
• D)divergent intelligence

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Definitions:

Personality

The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character.

Learned Behavior

Skills or responses that are acquired through observation, experience, or instruction, rather than being innate or instinctual.

Shyness

A feeling of apprehension, lack of comfort, or awkwardness especially when a person is around other people.

Decreased

To become smaller or less in size, amount, intensity, or degree.