Your friend says that they took an intelligence test and that based on their scores, they are a genius. You are suspicious of their conclusion and you ask to see their scores. You notice that they scored extremely high in Verbal Word Fluency, Verbal Comprehension, and Associative Memory, but that they had average scores in other areas, such as Numeric Ability. Which statement below would best match Thurstone's conclusion(s) of how these results could be interpreted?a. Your friend has a very high general intelligence (g) bYour friend scored well in several primary mental abilities c. Your friend would likely do very well in specifńc tasks like defining words or remembering pairs of unrelated words, but comparatively not as well on a math test d. b and c

d. b and c

Explanation:

This is the answer that would best describe how you should interpret the results of your friend. Your friend had an extremely high value in certain categories, while an average one in others. This means that your friend scored well in several primary mental abilities. However, this does not mean that he is equally good at all tasks. It is likely that your friend will do very well in tasks such as defining words and remembering pairs of words, but perhaps not when it comes to a math test.

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)