Exam 9: Cognition and Intelligence

If a person's mental age is the same as their chronological age,what will their IQ be calculated as?

The feature __________ theory,forwarded by psychologist Anne Treisman,suggests that we organize stimuli based on knowledge about how their features should be combined.

The psychological __________ period refers to a moment of time when the brain is processing one stimulus and it is temporarily unable to process a second stimulus.

"I'm SO glad I didn't bet on the Yankees to win the World Series this year," Vittorio said to his wife Debbie."I knew that even though they had all of the best players and the highest payroll that they wouldn't win!" The fact that Vittorio said this the day after the Yankees lost the last game of the World Series is an example of the __________ bias.

Which of the following is not one of the errors in reasoning that is discussed in your textbook?

Research into the activity of the brain during taxing activities has revealed that the size of the __________ is linked to IQ more closely than the size of any other area in the brain.

Robert Sternberg is to ___ types of intelligence as Howard Gardner is to ____ types of intelligence.

In the chapter on memory,you learned that our sensory memory is a temporary storage facility with a duration of only a brief second or two where information is maintained while we decide what to do with it.In the filter theory of attention,the sensory __________ serves the same purpose of holding information until it is accepted or rejected by a filter.

What is the difference between a prodigy and a person with savant syndrome?

The term book knowledge most resembles __________ intelligence from the theory of Robert Sternberg.

Ellen and Mike are trying to decide where to go for an anniversary dinner.Mike says to Ellen,"Okay,you can have anything you want.We can do Chinese,Italian,Thai,Mexican or Spanish food.If you want sushi,that is fine,or we can go to an upscale steakhouse! I'm even fine if you want to go get a few fast food burgers and then go for ice cream.So what will it be?" According to the concept of decision aversion,what is Ellen likely to choose?

A(n)__________ is the mental image or typical example that exhibits all of the features associated with a concept.

According to the theory of Robert Sternberg,__________ intelligence is characterized by the ability to find many solutions to complicated and poorly defined problems and to use those solutions in everyday situations.

Mental sets can either help you solve or a problem or obstruct you from solving a problem.

According to the linguistic relativity hypothesis,the meaning of a phrase with ambiguous words depends on the volume with which the phrase was spoken.

The term intelligence is a general measure of how smart a person is.

During a lecture on the dangers of stereotypes,Dr.Humphrey stated to her class,"as an example of a commonly held stereotype,some people believe that African-American individuals are less intelligent than Caucasian individuals." A student in her class who was not paying attention only heard her say,"African-American individuals are less intelligent than Caucasian individuals." Clearly there will be a problem based on this miscommunication,but the real issue is that the __________ of the issue that was provided by the teacher was different than that which was received by the student.

A mental grouping of similar objects,events,and people is called a __________.

Chris was getting more and more frustrated as he looked for his wallet.He simply could not remember what he had done with it,and he felt like he'd checked everywhere for it.As he sat on his sofa trying to come up with a solution,it suddenly dawned on him in a glorious "Aha" moment that he'd left the wallet in his car.This kind of solution - where an answer suddenly comes to a person - is called __________.

__________ are informal rules that make the decision-making process quick and simple.