The Navigation Acts

question 30

Multiple Choice

The Navigation Acts

• A) placed tariffs on the import of British goods by the colonies.
• B) prohibited trade between the British West Indies and the colonies.
• C) allowed colonial trade on British ships commanded by foreign captains.
• D) encouraged trade between the colonies and the Dutch.
• E) None of the above is correct.

Understand the application of factor analysis in psychology and its role in identifying intelligence clusters.

Grasp the significance and criticism of a single intelligence measure.

Understand the triarchic theory of intelligence proposed by Robert Sternberg.

Associate personal attributes like grit and self-discipline with academic and life success.

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Definitions:

Self-Serving Bias

The tendency to take credit for one’s successes and to deny responsibility for one’s failures.

False Consensus Effect

Observers’ overestimation of the degree to which everybody else thinks or acts the way they do.

Social Comparison

The process by which individuals evaluate their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and abilities in relation to others.

False Consensus Effect

A cognitive bias whereby individuals overestimate the extent to which their beliefs, feelings, and behaviors are shared by others.