Psychology Answers

6. Which construct from Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence includes the ability to find the best fit between the individual and the environment?

1. creative

2. practical

3. incremental

4. linguistic

Choose the INCORRECT statement.

• A. According to David Elkind, adolescents do not believe that they are the centre of other people’s attention most of the time.
• B. The first time that David Elkind described the egocentrism of adolescents was in the 1960s.
• C. David Elkind stated that adolescent egocentrism manifests in the creation of an imaginary audience and a personal fable.
• D. According to David Elkind, the personal fable is closely related to the imaginary audience.

Thabo has always wanted to be a doctor. His parents pushed him in biology and chemistry. When he applied for university, he declared his major as pre-medical and only took classes that would help him to study medicine. According to the identity status paradigm, in which stage is Thabo?

• A. identity diffusion
• B. moratorium
• C. identity foreclosure
• D. identity lease

Choose the INCORRECT statement.

• A. Adolescents are faced with various developmental tasks.
• B. Adolescents have the cognitive ability to formulate, examine and draw inferences from hypotheses.
• C. Adolescents are capable of thinking abstractly.
• D. The majority of adolescents are incapable of forming rational opinions about alternative values and religious practices