Exam 9: Thinking and Intelligence

In early studies, researchers teaching language to primates unwittingly gave nonverbal cues that might have enabled the apes to respond correctly.

________ is the study of cognitive processes in nonhuman animals, especially in natural environments.

Japanese school teachers and students are more likely than their American counterparts to believe that:

At the age of 66, Hilda is worried when researchers ask her to take an IQ test. She knows that older people are assumed to have failing cognitive abilities. Which term is used to describe Hilda's anxiety? How could Hilda's test performance be affected by her worries?

Research on visual images shows that people are able to manipulate the images in their imaginations.

Which of the following best describes the hindsight bias?

Logan understands the material in his statistics class, but on tests he spends the entire period on the most difficult problems and never even gets to the problems he can solve easily. Which ingredient of intelligence does he need to improve?

Informal reasoning involves:

In his research on stereotype threat, Claude Steele has revealed how cultural stereotypes influence test performance. Explain stereotype threat and the effects it has on test performance. Who typically experiences stereotype threat?

The original formula for determining IQ had a serious flaw in that:

A cake recipe is one example of an algorithm.

A mental image is:

Contrast the behaviors of college students who are weak in metacognition with those for whom metacognition is a strength.

The process of drawing conclusions or inferences from facts, observations, or assumptions is called:

Which of the following statements is generally true for people capable of reflective judgment?

Which of the following is one of the components in Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence?

Nate thinks that Republicans and Democrats almost never work together in Congress. The reason he believes this is that he finds it much easier to think of examples of politicians from the two parties not working together than to think of examples of them working together. It is likely that the ______________ has caused Nate to underestimate how frequently Democrats and Republicans work together.

Comparisons of attitudes and performance with regard to math tests in Asia and the U.S. showed that:

Japanese school teachers and students are more likely than their American counterparts to believe that:

Nonconscious processes occur outside of conscious awareness but are accessible to consciousness when necessary.