3/5 Personality, Intelligence and Testing EXAM

Personality, Intelligence and Testing EXAM

FRQ's---
I forgot to load the FRQ's ahead of time---so it works in the student favor.

You may write the FRQ's over the long weekend, and be ready for a Peer Review of your writing beginning first thing in class on Monday.

Here are the 2 FRQ's from the Unit:

                  1.  Researchers debate the definition of intelligence: does “intelligence” refer to
                        one overall intellectual ability, or “multiple intelligences,” a set of capabilities
                       people use to solve problems?

          A. Briefly discuss how the intelligence theories listed below apply to your school experiences

                 •       Spearman’s general intelligence

                 •       Gardner’s multiple intelligences

                   •       Sternberg’s triarchic theory

B. Use the terms below to develop an argument that supports one of the theories you described above.

    •       factor analysis

    •       savant syndrome

    •       validity

2.       You are talking quietly with some friends at a restaurant when all of a sudden a new student at your school, Dave, sits down at your table. Dave immediately starts to tell a loud, funny story to everyone at the table while he gobbles French fries from your plate. Use the following theories to explain or describe aspects of Dave's behavior:

• Reaction formation

• Trait theory

• Maslow's hierarchy of needs

• Reciprocal determinism

• Operant conditioning

• Drive-reduction theory

• Incentive theory