Exam 9: Thinking and Intelligence

Tacit knowledge refers to strategies for success that are not explicitly taught but instead must be inferred.

If the human mind can be likened to a computer,then the visual images could be likened to the images that appear on the screen of the computer.What results have been found that would support this analogy?

Research on human cognition reveals that not all mental processing is conscious.

The tendency to overestimate one's ability to have predicted an event once the outcome is known is called:

As an Asian woman,Min-Hye is aware of the stereotypes that Asians are good at math and that women are not good at math.When Min-Hye fills out a questionnaire about her ethnicity and then is given a math test,it is most likely that:

According to our textbook,intelligence is defined as a measure of memory and vocabulary that was originally computed by dividing a person's mental age by his or her chronological age.

A person who is low in emotional intelligence is likely to misread the nonverbal signals of others.

The text discussed four elements of cognition: concepts,mental images,cognitive schemas,and propositions.In the diagram below,fill in the appropriate labels to create a visual summary of the elements of cognition.

The formula for IQ is:

Define your terms! In Chapter 1 we learned that this was an important guideline in regard to critical thinking.People refer to intelligence all the time,but how is intelligence defined? Does the musical genius of a world-class violinist such as Anne-Sophie Mutter count as intelligence? Based on your reading of Chapter 9,describe different ways that intelligence has been defined.

Dominic is being administered the Stanford-Binet.It is most likely that he will be asked to:

According to our textbook,intelligence is defined as an inborn,global characteristic of an individual usually defined as the innate ability to acquire information.

________ is defined as learning that occurs when you acquire knowledge about something without being aware of how you did so and without being able to state exactly what it is you have learned.

Reflective judgments involve all of the following EXCEPT:

________ is the tendency to falsely attribute human qualities to nonhuman beings.

According to our textbook,intelligence is defined as the learned ability of an individual to become aware of his or her own mental processes,using these processes to become knowledgeable about the external world.

Tacit knowledge refers to:

A third-year science student is most likely to describe ________ as an example of an intelligent person.

Intuition involves two stages of mental processing.The first stage is ________ and the second stage is ________.

A proposition is a unit of meaning that is made up of concepts and expresses a single idea.