Exam 9: Thinking and Intelligence

Which of the following animals was NOT taught language?

If Mary chooses to buy a raffle ticket that has a 5% chance of winning over one that has a 95% chance of losing,she is:

Howard Gardner would agree with three of the statements below.He would NOT agree,however,that:

As she moves quietly around the restaurant where she is a waitress,Alicia finds herself hearing "in her mind's ear" the song "Just whistle while you work!" This would be an example of a/an:

Research on overcoming our cognitive biases shows that people tend to be equally irrational in all situations.

A representation that may occur in many sensory modalities,and that resembles what it represents,is a:

A ________ is a unit of meaning made up of concepts that expresses a unitary idea.

How does the focus of the cognitive theories of intelligence differ from the focus of psychometric theories? How do the two approaches define intelligence?

In the early 1900s,at the request of the French Ministry of Education,Alfred Binet constructed a testing instrument that eventually became the first widely used intelligence test.For what purpose was the test developed?

Professor Vertz emphasizes the strategies that people use when thinking about problems and arriving at solutions.It is evident that she approaches intelligence as a ________ theorist.

Implicit learning primarily involves:

People tend to judge the probability of an event by how easy it is to think of examples of the event.

Autumn's mental representation for Halloween includes associations,attitudes,and expectations.What term is used to describe these characteristics? Develop an example that describes Autumn's mental representation for Halloween,making sure that each of the three aspects mentioned above is included.

Describe contextual intelligence according to Robert Sternberg's theory.How is it linked to tacit knowledge?

Research on animals and language indicates that:

Which of the following is in the correct order from the basic building blocks of thought to complex networks of knowledge?

The belief that a correct answer can be determined directly through the senses or from authorities occurs during:

The tendency to think that human beings have nothing in common with other animals is called anthropomorphism.

The average intelligence score of contemporary IQ tests is usually set arbitrarily at 100,and the tests are constructed so that about two-thirds of all people score between 85 and 115.

According to the availability heuristic,Jayne and her husband are most likely to exaggerate the risk to their children caused by: