Exam 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language

Which example would most people take longest to identify as a fruit (even though it technically is a fruit)?

People in the United States often think of a sports car when asked to envision a fun, fast form of travel. In this example, a sports car would be considered a __________.

At the current time, which statement is TRUE about our knowledge of whether animals can use humanlike language?

Give a brief definition of the term concept and provide an example of one with its associated prototype.

If you took the WAIS-IV when you were 18 and again when you were 25, and the scores were the same, what could you conclude?

Cognition is a synonym for __________.

Kosslyn asked subjects if frogs have lips and a stubby tail. What did the subjects report?

What do we call the hypothesis that language influences what we think?

The rhythm and emphasis on each word is called __________.

A psychological test that measures what we intend it to measure is said to be __________.

What percentage of the population is described as gifted, according to IQ standards?

What are the three parts of Sternberg's theory of intelligence?

According to Robert Sternberg, which type of intelligence is LEAST likely to predict success in an academic environment?

What score indicates how one individual compares to others on an intelligence test?

Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf theorized that __________, a concept reflected in their linguistic relativity hypothesis.

A test can fail in reliability while still being valid.

Seventy percent of the students in a classroom are women and 30 percent are men. One student is described as ambitious, athletic, and assertive. Why are most people likely to think this description refers to a male student?

Bruce believes that aliens crashed in the western United States in the 1950s. When looking for information about this on the Internet, he ignores any sites that are skeptical of his belief and only visits and talks with his friends about the sites that support his belief. This is an example of confirmation bias.

A group of businesspeople meet in order to solve the problem of decreased sales of their company's products. One of them suggests that they generate as many ideas as they can in a short period of time without being critical of any of them. This technique of stimulating divergent thinking is called __________.

The words "care" and "bear" differ in one __________.