Exam 9: Thinking and Intelligence

Fenton has learned a great strategy for winning a card game,but he developed the strategy without being able to consciously identify what he was doing.He isn't even sure what exactly he has learned! This type of learning is called:

Pre-reflective stages of thought involve the belief that:

________ is the tendency to try to solve new problems by using the same heuristics,strategies,and rules that worked in the past on similar problems.

Since there is a cultural stereotype in North America that women are not good at math,when women are given a math test they generally excel in order to prove the critics wrong.

The broadening of the notion of intelligence through Gardner's theory has been useful because it has forced psychologists to go beyond "g."

Tacit knowledge about how to be a good student predicts academic success in college as well as entrance exams do.

A prototype is an especially representative example of a concept.

One well-known theory of intelligence,the triarchic theory proposed by Robert Sternberg,distinguishes three different aspects of intelligence.Explain each of these aspects in detail.

________ is defined as an integrated mental network of knowledge,beliefs,and expectations concerning a particular topic.

A student has just about finished writing a term paper on the scientific study of intelligence and now must come up with a concluding statement.If he wants to draw a conclusion with which most psychologists would agree,he should say that:

Tacit knowledge refers to the knowledge of one's own cognitive processes and how they can be used effectively.

________ is the knowledge or awareness of one's own cognitive processes.

What is the IQ of an 8-year-old with a mental age of 10?

Kathryn's grandma says that if Kathryn uses the old family recipe for Irish soda bread,then she is guaranteed to have delicious results.Kathryn's grandma is encouraging her granddaughter to:

Kagan argues that fully conscious awareness is needed in all of the following situations EXCEPT when:

Between the First World War and the 1960s,the intelligence tests developed for use in schools favoured:

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

Reasoning may involve a nonconscious,impulsive response as well as purposeful mental activity.

The broadening of the notion of intelligence through Gardner's theory has been useful for all of the following reasons EXCEPT it has:

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 that he can solve easily.It is evident that Logan needs to improve in his: