Exam 7: Memory

Today's psychologists generally endorse the notion that there is a single intelligence factor.

A psychological test is reliable to the extent that it:

Spearman proposed that a broad intelligence factor contributed to many different abilities.

With respect to the elements of language reviewed in the textbook, cultural influences are probably MOST apparent at the level of:

An fMRI study of freestyling rappers' brains suggested that the relaxed mental constraint necessary for fluency, flexibility, and divergent thinking may reflect _____ activity in the _____ prefrontal cortex.

B. F. Skinner proposed the notion of an innate language acquisition device.

Aptitude test is to achievement test as ______ is to ______.

The same brain areas are activated whether people view objects or simply imagine them.

In the framing effect:

The classic early study of mental rotation was performed by Kosslyn and his colleagues.

Creating subgoals is one example of an algorithm.

Stereotypes spring to mind easily. Therefore, people sometimes use them to judge the frequency of certain events, such as crimes in a given neighborhood. This example BEST describes the use of the _____ heuristic.

Making several minor household repairs, Alyssa uses a shoe as a hammer and a butter knife as a screwdriver. Which of the following statements BEST characterizes Alyssa's problem solving?

Sometimes one is prone to judge an individual based on one's notion of the category of people he or she most closely resembles. When this happens, one falls prey to the:

According to the text, divergent thinking is a component of creativity. Therefore, scores on measures of divergent thinking should be _____ correlated with scores on creativity measures.

An individual's potential for learning is called:

At a faculty-student mixer, Mildred's psychology professor introduces her to a faculty member from the linguistics department. Mildred's professor remarks that the linguist is "one of North America's foremost phonologists." Based on her study of the psychology of language, Mildred surmises that the faculty member studies:

Midlevel concepts are also called ordinate-level concepts.

If a test is reliable, it is also valid.

Auditory imagery relies on different brain areas than does auditory perception.