Mrs. Tomaselli knows that her student Eli has an average IQ. She also has observed him having difficulty spelling long words and multiplying double-digit numbers. Because of these facts, Mrs....

Mrs. Tomaselli knows that her student Eli has an average IQ. She also has observed him having difficulty spelling long words and multiplying double-digit numbers.

Because of these facts, Mrs. Tomaselli assumes that Eli

will have trouble with other specific abilities, such as

solving science problems. Mrs. Tomaselli’s assessment of

Eli’s abilities is best explained by a belief in ______.
a) general intelligence
b) multiple intelligences
c) crystallized intelligence
d) the triarchic theory of intelligence