Exam 8: Thinking and Intelligence

When David first moved to Austin,he had to rely on the GPS in his car.Over time,David found that he could navigate the city without using his GPS because he knew information about sections of the city and had a rough idea of its shape.David must have developed a _____ of the city.

Angelica believes that hair salons have better shampoo than grocery stores,so she buys shampoo from salons only.She reads in Consumer Reports that there is no difference between shampoos available in the two places.Given what you know about heuristics,you could predict that Angelica has developed a(n)_____ about shampoo and _____ change her buying behavior.

Grace and Patrick go to the career center at their school for advice about possible careers.If all that the counselor knew about them was their genders,she might recommend that Grace become a(n)_____ and Patrick become a(n)_____.

A picture of a carrot is an example of a(n)_____ representation; the word carrot is a(n)_____ representation.

Which of the following questions best summarizes the modern version of the nature/nurture question about intelligence?

Analogical representations _____ correspond to characteristics of the object that they represent.Symbolic representations _____ correspond to characteristics of the object that they represent.

_____ describes intelligence as a unitary construct._____ describes two aspects of intelligence._____ describes multiple intelligences.

A new Batman movie comes out.You have loved all the other Batman movies,so you suspect you will like this one,and you decide to see it.You have used:

The availability heuristic can cause people to incorrectly assess the probabilities of various events because:

Which of the following items is NOT an example of an analogical representation?

Melinda is an extremely successful surgeon.Which of Gardner's multiple intelligences does she therefore possess in abundance?

A surgical team was operating in a rural hospital without a backup electrical generator.The power went out.To provide light for the surgery,they collected all the cell phones in the hospital and turned them on.The operation was able to proceed because the surgical team avoided _____ and _____ the problem.

Dr.Brown is interested in models of how concepts are represented.He believes that concepts are characterized by the existence of a best example.Which model does Dr.Brown most likely favor?

Nkeis decides to buy a small car because it is good for the environment.When she goes to look at small cars,she is surprised that they come in luxury versions,because she expected them to be very basic and uncomfortable.Nkeis has been using:

Restructuring a problem often reveals a new and more successful approach to solving the problem.This fact suggests that a critical step in problem solving is:

Dr.Smith is interested in models of how concepts are represented.She believes that concepts are characterized by the aggregate of all examples of their members.Which model does Dr.Smith most likely favor?

Which of the following abilities is NOT an aspect of emotional intelligence?

When a friend asks you to recommend a restaurant,you send her to the place where you ate last Saturday because it comes most quickly to mind.This way of thinking is an example of:

Kelsey and Andreas are participating in the same two psychology experiments.The first task is to listen to a list of numbers and repeat them back in the same order.The second task is to determine how many prime numbers are on the list.Kelsey has an IQ of 123 and Andreas has an IQ of 111.There ought to be a _____ difference between Kelsey and Andreas's performance on the repetition task and a _____ difference between Kelsey and Andreas's performance on the counting prime numbers task.

Lauren is baking a cake for her boyfriend's birthday.She starts to panic because she does not have all the ingredients.She calms down when she realizes that the important thing is to bake a cake,not to have specific ingredients.She first tries to find substitutes for the missing ingredients.She then looks for cake recipes that will work with the ingredients she has.Lauren is engaging in: