Exam 8: Thinking and Intelligence

Joel is fantastic at solving logic problems and analogies,but he does not have a very good vocabulary and could not find most countries on a map.Joel would probably score _____ on a test of crystallized intelligence and _____ on a test of fluid intelligence.

Consider two representations.Representation A is abstract and bears no resemblance to what it represents,whereas Representation B has some characteristics of what it represents.Representation A is a(n)_____ and Representation B is a(n)_____.

_____ models describe how people are irrational decision makers,whereas _____ models state that people are rational decision makers.

Yang believes that a whale is a fish,because a whale swims.Yang's misconception suggests that he is using a(n)_____ model for the fish category.

A larger volume of neuronal cell bodies in areas that support attentional control is related to _____ intelligence but not to _____ intelligence.

The idea that one intelligence factor is involved in all intellectual tasks is known as

Sahndra and Yosef each need to buy cereal.Sahndra goes to the convenience store that stocks only three kinds of cereal.Yosef goes to the grocery store that stocks fifteen kinds.If the brands in each store represent at least reasonable choices,who is more likely to buy cereal? If they both buy cereal,who is more likely to be happy with the cereal?

Sally is knitting a sweater by following the instructions in the knitting book exactly.Sally is following a(n)_____ for the sweater,which means that her sweater _____ turn out right.

Chiamaka has curly black hair and dark skin and is an excellent musician.Kara has straight red hair and white skin and is great at basketball.Approximately what percentage of their genetic code is the same?

Fluid intelligence has been argued _____ adaptive; crystallized intelligence has been argued _____ adaptive.

Emotional intelligence encompasses which of Gardner's multiple intelligences?

Most proposed designs for the Vietnam War Memorial involved statues of soldiers.The winning design was a low black wall inscribed with the names of the dead.The architect who submitted the winning design is clearly very high in Sternberg's _____ intelligence.

Norma is trying to decide which of four dresses to buy.For each dress,she carefully considers the cost,appearance,and quality.She then ranks the dresses in order of desirability and buys the most desirable one.Norma's decision is in accord with _____ theory,which is a _____ model of human decision making.

People tend to become closed minded when asked to find a different use for an object that has a clear purpose.This mind-set is a result of:

According to this component of prospect theory,losing $100 would have a disproportionately larger effect on utility than winning $100 would.This phenomenon is known as:

The Stanford-Binet IQ test assesses the difference between which two factors?

Correlations among test items that create clusters of related items have been identified using:

A scientist interested in studying intelligence shows people a stimulus and then quickly takes it away.The scientist then does this repeatedly,with the stimulus shown for different amounts of time,to find out how much time is needed for the participant to correctly answer a question about the stimulus.People who can perform this task with very short durations are likely to:

The word tree is an example of a(n)_____,whereas a picture of a tree is an example of a(n)_____.

Which memory system is most closely related to intelligence test scores?