Extensive Practice at a Particular Skill, Such as Computer Programming

question 215

Multiple Choice

Extensive practice at a particular skill, such as computer programming, improves that skill but has little effect on any other kind of performance. Therefore we classify the improved performance of that skill as

• A) general intelligence.
• B) fluid intelligence.
• C) crystallized intelligence.
• D) psychomotor intelligence.

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