Exam 2: Multicultural Issues Involving

Maria is able to put things together in interesting ways that no one else has been able to do. All of her friends and even her professors compliment her on how she makes these connections. According to Sternberg's theory of intelligence, Maria is most likely high on ________ intelligence.

Atsuko wants to find a word in Japanese that has the precise meaning as a specific word in English. Atsuko is seeking

An admissions committee is trying to apply Sternberg's theory of intelligence to admitting students into their school. They are seeking students who could use common objects and theories in a new and interesting way. They are seeking students with ________ intelligence.

Constantine et al. (2007) studied Asian international women adjusting to the United States and college. They found all of the following issues to be important except

The intersubjective approach treats individuals within societies as quasi-rational arbiters of societal norms. Which of the following illustrates this approach?

You are at an interview for graduate school. The school is trying to decide between accepting you and another student who has very nearly identical qualifications as you do. This final interview is considered to be a ________ piece of information.

Qualitative research approaches might be used when numerical scores

A researcher designs a study so that everything is exactly the same except for the difference in dosage in a medication between two groups. This researcher is primarily concerned with

Clark, Ellis, Peel, and Rigs (2010) feel that there is a Western bias in favor of the logical-positivistic approach. One piece of evidence of this is

Albert notices that European American research participants tend to use all numbers on a 1-7 scale rating feelings, whereas Asian participants tend to only use 2-6 ratings. Albert therefore equates a 7 from a European American to a 6 from an Asian. Albert is using

Okagaki and Sternberg (1991) found that White parents valued ________ as measures of intelligence.

The quantitative approach to research where numbers are compared to get at the "truth" underlying different phenomena is called the

Iwamasa and her colleagues found that their elderly Asian research participants seemed to enjoy the focus-group section of their studies because

Sue (1999) criticized science for its "selective enforcement of scientific principles" because science favored ________ over ________.

Kaylene's narrative about being tested into the GATE program when she was a little girl revealed how early ________ tests were used.

In a typically constructed research study, the control group is selected

A teacher uses a test of verbal fluency to determine who will lead a group of children. While the test may be accurate for children who speak English as a first language, it may not be accurate for children who speak English as a second language. The application of this test is a

According to Sternberg's theory of intelligence, if you are able to transfer knowledge you learn through book learning into ways of behaving in the real world, you are using ________ intelligence.

One reason why qualitative methods have not been widely employed is that they

A researcher collects data on 50-year-olds and follows them for 20 years to see if they responded the same or differently when they were 50, 60, and 70 years old. This researcher is employing a ________ experimental design.