Exam 9: Thinking and Intelligence

Howard Gardner has proposed that the domains of intelligence be expanded to include aptitudes and talents that have not been evaluated in traditional IQ tests.Describe the additional domains that Gardner has proposed.

When you are making a cake,the recipe that you rely upon is an example of an algorithm.

Scientists agree that a general ability underlies the specific abilities and talents measured by intelligence tests.

Psychologists cannot study mental images because no one can "see" another person's visual images.

Standardized IQ tests predict school performance fairly well.

People have reported visual and auditory mental images,but mental images do not occur in other sensory modalities.

According to the affect heuristic,beef consumption will rise following publication of news articles reporting the dangers of mad cow disease.

Many people report mental images in the sensory modalities of smell,touch,taste,and pain.

In Chapter 2 (How Psychologists Do Research)we learned that in survey research the phrasing of questions needs to be considered.How is this related to the importance of wording as noted in Chapter 9,especially in regard to the tendency to avoid loss and minimize risk?

The ability to reason deductively might be hindered if:

Which of the following is associated with creativity?

The work of theorists such as Robert Sternberg and Howard Gardner has broadened the notion of intelligence.Name three ways that this has proven useful.

In Chapter 1 we learned that the media and the public persist in equating "psychologist" with "psychotherapist." How do prototypes,discussed in Chapter 9,help explain this phenomenon?

After using the same mathematical formula to solve the first 9 problems of her homework assignment,a student automatically starts problem number 10 using the same solution strategy.The student is demonstrating:

In early studies,researchers teaching language to primates unwittingly gave nonverbal cues that might have enabled the apes to respond correctly.

Psychologists who were interested in studying visual images found that:

When people have strong feelings on an issue,they usually try to consider all of the information relevant to that issue.

The traditional approach to intelligence,the ________ approach,focuses on how well people perform on standardized aptitude tests.

Dawn and Erin can't figure out how they can fit two lofts,a futon,a computer,and a refrigerator into their small dorm room! Just when it seems hopeless,Erin says,"Aha.I've got it!" and begins moving the items.Erin's sudden revelation is most likely due to:

Differences between Asian and North American children in regard to a broad battery of mathematics tests can be accounted for by educational resources.