Exam 7: Memory

Cognition is the same thing as thinking.

When one uses the representativeness heuristic, one is:

Which statement BEST describes the relationships between the WAIS-IV and WISC-IV?

People seek and remember evidence that supports their existing hypotheses; they ignore or discount contradictory evidence. In other words, people are prone to the:

Which statement about heuristics is True?

Research with the Dani of Papua New Guinea affirms the linguistic relativity hypothesis.

Approximately _____% of the population has an IQ score between 85 and 115.

Howard Gardner proposed three distinct forms of intelligence.

Sound is to meaning as ______ is to _____.

A language may be composed entirely of gestures.

Mandy, a True believer in astrology, reads in her horoscope that today is her lucky day. She gets so excited that she spills coffee all over herself, necessitating a change of clothes. As a result, she is late for work and for a very important meeting, which in turn gets her into serious trouble with her boss. That evening, her brother is taken to the emergency room. On her way to visit him, Mandy finds a dime in the hospital parking lot. What does research on the confirmation bias suggest that Mandy will do?

Etta is taking an intelligence test based on Gardner's theory. How is Etta's performance likely to be scored?

A political science professor attempts to facilitate her students' completion of a term paper assignment by requiring them to first submit a topic statement, then a list of references, then a draft of the introduction, and then, finally, the completed paper. The professor is encouraging her students to use the problem-solving strategy of:

The IQ scores of identical twins are perfectly correlated.

Five-year-old Aliyah has an IQ of 80; thus, her mental age is 4.

If intelligence is a singular, unitary phenomenon, rather than a diverse collection of specialized abilities, then one might expect:

Laura is 8; her performance on a series of cognitive tasks is equivalent to that of the average 10-year-old child. Her intelligence quotient is:

A jeweler is unable to fix a particular mounting in a ring because she can imagine only the conventional uses for her tools. This situation demonstrates:

_____ concepts are defined by precise rules.

In the Mayan Yucatec language, all nouns are accompanied by a term specifying the material of which an object is made (Lucy, 2005). Members of this culture appear to pay more attention to what an object is made of than to its overall shape; English speakers, by contrast, focus on an object's overall shape. This finding: