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Kai cuts their foot while hiking. They forgot to pack bandages, but they have a tube of superglue and use that to seal the wound. Kai’s ability to invent a solution uses the ________ intelligence component of the triarchic theory of intelligence.

A test can be reliable, but still not be valid. 

Little Jimmy (4 years old) asks his Mom for more milk. They’re all out of milk, so out of sight, she pours the milk from a short fat glass into a tall thin glass. Jimmy is satisfied and gives her a cheerful “Thanks Mom!”  Jimmy is in the _____ stage, according to Piaget and is failing to understand the principle of ________.

If I asked you to unscramble this set of letters to form a word: K I V I G N S This would be considered a well-defined problem (as opposed to ill-defined)

Students would almost always prefer multiple choice items to fill-in-the-blank items because multiple choice means that there’s much less probability of a(n) _______ failure.

People are much more likely to use heuristics (rather than algorithms) to solve everyday problems.

Sometimes intelligence tests have you listen to a string of numbers, and then repeat these numbers in reverse order. This would be a test of a person’s ________ memory.

Never forgetting how to ride a bike is primarily because of the operation of the  _________, while never forgetting that scary car accident you had is largely due to the operation of the _________.

One of the most difficult things to teach little kids about language is to add suffixes to words, like “-ed” for past tense , or “-s” for plural.

A recipe would be considered a(n) ______, and would be stored in mind as a __________ memory.