Exam 10: Thinking and Language

The value of making a good first impression when you begin work for a new employer is best underscored by the research on

Although intuition can at times hinder rationality,it is often adaptive because it facilitates

College students are more likely to use a condom when told that it has a 95 percent success rate than when told it has a 5 percent failure rate.This best illustrates the impact of

After Miguel's recent automobile accident,doctors detected damage to his cerebral cortex in Broca's area.It is likely that Miguel will have difficulty

To find Tabasco sauce in a large grocery store,you could systematically search every shelf in every store aisle.This best illustrates problem solving by means of

Expanding the number of possible solutions to a problem illustrates

A chess-playing computer program that routinely calculates all possible outcomes of all possible game moves best illustrates problem solving by means of

Introductory psychology students performed best on a midterm psychology test if they had previously spent five minutes a day visualizing themselves

Brainstorming sessions that encourage people to spontaneously suggest new and unusual solutions to a problem are designed to avoid

Students were asked to figure out the rule used to devise the three-number sequence 2-4-6.After generating sets of three numbers to learn whether their sets met the rule,they typically convinced themselves of the wrong rule.Their errors best illustrate the impact of

A pet monkey was presented with pictures of a variety of cars interspersed with pictures of a variety of animals.The monkey's ability to separate all the car pictures into one pile and all the animal pictures into another,separate pile would best illustrate the monkey's capacity for

The tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions is called

We more quickly recognize that a blue jay is a bird than that a penguin is a bird because a blue jay more closely resembles our ________ of a bird.

Creativity is the ability to

FOXP2 is a ________ that helps enable the lip,tongue,and vocal movements of human speech.

No matter what language we first use,our first words are mostly

Belief perseverance refers to

Deaf culture advocates are most likely to object to the use of cochlear implants for

We fear too little those events that will claim lives

Jahmal cites his cousin Luana's many car accidents as evidence that women are worse drivers than men.He overlooks the fact that his wife and three daughters have had far fewer car accidents than he and his two sons.Jahmal's prejudicial conclusion about women's driving skills best illustrates the effects of