Exam 7: Thought, Language, and Intelligence

Noah is outlining a paper on the fairness of intelligence tests. He has come up with several possible titles and has asked for your opinion. You tell Noah that all of the following would be accurate titles except for

According to Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, a community living near the Arctic Circle 500 years ago without any contact with other societies was likely to have ascribed the characteristic of intelligence to someone who

Cara suggests that her friend Iris pursue a career in social work due to her ability to empathize with and understand others. According to Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, Iris would have high __________ intelligence.

Jacinta is playing a game on her cell phone where she has to identify words from a list of six letters. On level 49, she has found all but one word and she simply cannot see what she is missing. She puts the phone down, and three hours later picks it up and immediately sees that she missed the word "portal." The time away from the problem that allowed her to come up with the answer was called

Enrique's father is English and his mother is Spanish. He often says things like, "Donde esta bathroom?" (Where is the bathroom?)and "The park is a la izquierda." (The park is to the left.)Enrique may be

Suppose the SAT were revised so that a score of 500 corresponded to a score of 100 on the WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale). A score of 500 or more would therefore be achieved by at least __________ percent of the examinees.

First impressions of people are difficult to change due to

Your book notes that the criminal justice system in the United States may create bias in favor of accusers (or plaintiffs)because they are allowed to present their case before the defense. If it exists, this bias would be due to the ________ heuristic.

Nowhere State University depends primarily on shoe size, rather than the SAT, for admissions purposes. Its dropout rate is rather high. Shoe size is probably not an effective predictor of success in college because it lacks

A child taking Binet and Simon's early intelligence scale would be asked to do all but which of the following tasks?

The best choice to test divergent thinking would be to

List and identify three problematic heuristics that are associated with informal reasoning. Give an example of each.

Dr. Layaway administers a test of intelligence and scores it by dividing the test taker's mental age by his or her chronological age and then multiplying that figure times 100. This method of scoring is the same as that used for the original __________ intelligence test .

Which of the following is found in Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence?

One day, a tree on the Lakewood Golf Course was hit by lightning. The following weekend Galen continued his golf game near that tree during a thunderstorm because he was certain that lightning would not strike there twice. Galen's decision was based on

Many people believe that there are more deaths in the United States each year due to tornadoes than deaths due to asthma, even though asthma kills more people. This mistaken belief is due in part to the reports of tornadoes being more vivid. This is an example of how our judgments are affected by

Lola loves to gamble at the casino boats. She tells you that even though the odds of winning big are low, she is certain that she can win back at least the same amount of money she pays into the slot machines. By determining the odds of winning on the machines, you use a simple equation to show Lola that her __________ is actually negative, and therefore, she should not play the machines if she wants to come out ahead.

Homer and Marge went to the Lexus dealership to buy a new car. When they walked in, none of the salespersons approached them because Homer and Marge's appearance didn't match that of someone they thought could afford to buy a Lexus. The salespeople relied on their __________ of a "Lexus buyer."

A psycholinguist who does not believe human language is innate would have the most trouble with theories of language development that

The Whitney family lost the first round on a popular game show because none of their answers ("clavichord," "tuba," "ukulele")to the question "Name a popular musical instrument" had been mentioned by the population surveyed. Based on cognitive principles, how would you help them improve for the next round?