NinetynineCAT 2020 Slot 1 VARC Q20 Para Summary
Question 20 of the Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section, CAT 2020 Slot 1, with CAT's official answer.
The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.
For nearly a century most psychologists have embraced one view of intelligence. Individuals are born with more or less intelligence potential (I.Q.); this potential is heavily in\xef\xac\x82uenced by heredity and difcult to alter; experts in measurement can determine a person’s intelligence early in life, currently from paper-and-pencil measures, perhaps eventually from examining the brain in action or even scrutinizing his/her genome. Recently, criticism of this conventional wisdom has mounted. Biologists ask if speaking of a single entity called “intelligence” is coherent and question the validity of measures used to estimate heritability of a trait in humans, who, unlike plants or animals, are not conceived and bred under controlled conditions.
For nearly a century most psychologists have embraced one view of intelligence. Individuals are born with more or less intelligence potential (I.Q.); this potential is heavily in\xef\xac\x82uenced by heredity and difcult to alter; experts in measurement can determine a person’s intelligence early in life, currently from paper-and-pencil measures, perhaps eventually from examining the brain in action or even scrutinizing his/her genome. Recently, criticism of this conventional wisdom has mounted. Biologists ask if speaking of a single entity called “intelligence” is coherent and question the validity of measures used to estimate heritability of a trait in humans, who, unlike plants or animals, are not conceived and bred under controlled conditions.
- ABiologists have questioned the long-standing view that ‘intelligence’ is a single entity and the attempts to estimate it's heritability.
- BBiologists have questioned the view that ‘intelligence’ is a single entity and the ways in which what is inherited.
- CBiologists have criticised that conventional wisdom that individuals are born with more or less intelligence potential.
- DBiologists have started questioning psychologists' view of 'intelligence' as a measurable immutable characteristic of an individual.
Answer: (A) Biologists have questioned the long-standing view that ‘intelligence’ is a single entity and the attempts to estimate it's heritability. Para Summary MCQ
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