Terman's Longitudinal Study of People with Extremely High IQs Found

question 56

Multiple Choice

Terman's longitudinal study of people with extremely high IQs found that nearly all of them ____.

• A) became world-famous inventors, writers, artists, and so on
• B) completed a Ph.D., medical degree, or law degree
• C) had higher than average physical and mental health
• D) dropped out of high school and became entrepreneurs

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Definitions:

Trait Approach

A perspective in psychology focused on identifying, describing, and measuring individual characteristics and differences in personality.

Personality

A unique set of emotional, thoughts, and behavioral patterns that define an individual.

Collective Unconscious

A concept in Jungian psychology referring to the part of the unconscious mind that is derived from ancestral memory and experience, shared among beings of the same species.

Jung

A Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, known for his work on the collective unconscious and archetypes.