When Jared's 10-Year-Old Daughter Is Given the Wechsler Intelligence Scale

question 209

Multiple Choice

When Jared's 10-year-old daughter is given the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) and gets a score of 130, Jared can't wait to tell his child her score. Give Jared the best reason NOT to take this step.

• A) The score says little about Jared's daughter's school aptitude.
• B) If Jared tells his daughter her score, she may not feel she needs to study because she thinks, "I'll do well no matter how hard I work."
• C) Jared's daughter's score is likely to change over the next several years.
• D) Knowing her score won't give Jared's daughter any information about how she is likely to do in English and math this year.

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Definitions:

Actin

The protein of which microfilaments consist. Actin, together with the protein myosin, is responsible for muscle contraction.

Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum

A region of the endoplasmic reticulum associated with ribosomes, involved in the synthesis and processing of proteins.

Ribosomes

Cellular structures where protein synthesis occurs, reading mRNA and assembling amino acids into proteins according to the genetic instructions.

Microfilaments

Microfilaments are fine, thread-like protein fibers, composed largely of actin, that are a part of the cytoskeleton in eukaryotic cells, involved in cell movement and shape.