Exam 9: Thinking and Intelligence

Which of the following animals learned to understand English words,short sentences,and keyboard symbols without formal training?

How do psychometric and cognitive approaches to intelligence compare?

Mindlessness occurs when we make decisions out of habit without stopping to analyze why.

Contrast the behaviours of college students who are weak in meta-cognition with those for whom meta-cognition is a strength.

Which of the following is NOT one of the components in Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence?

In Canada,which of the following would be considered a prototype of the concept "sport"?

When individuals are asked to rate the effectiveness of condoms,they would rate a condom as effective if they were told:

Which of the following people is most likely to experience cognitive dissonance?

Concepts,the building blocks of thinking,would be of limited use to us if we merely stacked them up in our memories.

When it comes to thinking critically,people tend to apply a double standard.Explain how confirmation bias is linked to this double standard.

The day after the election,Josephine says that she knew all along who the winner would be.She is:

Research conducted with rhesus monkeys suggests that monkeys have a rudimentary sense of number.

A/An ________ process lies outside of awareness,but can be brought into consciousness when necessary.

The tendency to look for or pay attention only to information that supports one's own belief is called:

In Chapter 9,the authors note that many adults take one position and that's that.How does this lack of reflective judgment and dialectical thinking relate to the critical thinking guidelines explained in Chapter 1?

Peter's mental representation of Canada Day includes associations (fireworks),attitudes (it will be fun to picnic with the whole family),and expectations (it is probably going to be crowded at the park on July 1).They are all part of his:

As Bud and his sister Marilou play bridge,he whispers that she should play her high cards first.Bud wants to make sure that Marilou remembers a/an ________ concerning bridge.

According to the availability heuristic,the tendency to judge the probability of an event depends on:

Tracy does not have an unusually high IQ,but at work she was quickly promoted because she knows how to set priorities,communicate with management,and make others feel valued.Tracy has ________ about how to succeed on the job.

________ is a state of tension that exists when a person simultaneously holds two cognitions that are inconsistent with one another.