Over the Lifetime of an Individual,absolute Intelligence Tends To

question 105

Multiple Choice

Over the lifetime of an individual,absolute intelligence tends to:

• A)stay approximately the same.
• B)decrease until old age and then increase sharply.
• C)increase between adolescence and middle age,and then decline thereafter.
• D)decrease beginning at adolescence,slowly at first but then more rapidly.

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Definitions:

Peter Principle

A theory suggesting that people are promoted to their level of incompetence in a hierarchical organization.

Primacy Effect

The tendency to remember and give greater importance to information that is encountered first in a sequence.

Self-Serving Bias

A common cognitive bias where individuals attribute positive events to their own character but attribute negative events to external factors.

Actor-Observer Effect

A cognitive bias in which people tend to attribute their own actions to external circumstances but attribute others' actions to their personalities or character.