Exam 7: Cognition and Mental Abilities

A problem-solving strategy based on successive elimination of incorrect solutions until the correct one is found is called ________.

In taking a multiple-choice test, you first read the question and try to develop an answer. Then you check to see if your answer is one of the choices. If it's not, you try to eliminate any obviously wrong alternatives, and finally try to find the best answer from among those that remain. This problem-solving strategy is an example of ________.

Tests designed to measure the intellectual abilities of immigrants or deaf people by eliminating the use of words are called performance tests.

An important aspect of a compensatory decision-making model is ________.

The environmentalists' position on intelligence is best summarized by saying that ________.

A disorder in which the liver fails to produce a certain enzyme necessary for early brain development is ________.

Current research indicates that males tend to be born with significantly superior math skills whereas females tend to be born with significantly superior verbal skills.

By age 5, human children have a vocabulary of between ________ words.

Language is a uniquely human ability.

Semantics describes how we assign meaning to the morphemes we use.

A major difference between the Stanford-Binet test and the WAIS is that the ________.

When a person thinks of a concept such as "bird," the person usually ________.

After his football team wins a close game on a very risky play that rarely works, Greg says, "I KNEW that play would win the game for us." In reality, he wasn't at all sure it would work until after the play was completed. His thinking is an example of ________.

Kerstin is 8 years old and has just immigrated to America from Sweden. She is placed in a third-grade class, but she does not do well. Her teacher sends her to the school psychologist for intelligence testing. Noting that Kerstin does not speak English very well, the psychologist chooses a culture-fair test and administers the ________.

Discuss the importance of problem representation in the problem-solving process.

Mental set and functional fixedness are both potential obstacles to effective problem solving.

Hyde's research found that female workers were likely to be rated least positively when the term ________ was used to describe workers in general.

Thinking about alternative realities and things that never happened is known as ________.

Critics of IQ tests claim that the only thing they really measure is ________.

Images are mental categories for classifying specific people, things, or events.