If Presented with a Question from a Modern IQ Test

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Multiple Choice

If presented with a question from a modern IQ test, such as "How are dogs and rabbits alike?" you might abstractly answer correctly that "They are both mammals," while people, like your grandparents, 50 years ago would have been more likely to give a concrete, functional answer like "Dogs hunt rabbits," which modern IQ tests would score as wrong. Regarding this comparison, which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A)People, like your grandparents, likely depended less on abstract reasoning 50 years ago than you do today.
• B)If your grandparents had been born today, their minds would not have been able to develop the abstract reasoning skills necessary to live in today's complex society.
• C)Like your grandparents 50 years ago, people from other cultures do not automatically value the abstract reasoning prized in today's more complex society.
• D)Our intelligence and the ways we measure it cannot easily be separated from the social and cultural context of particular places and times.

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