Exam 7: Memory

"You always clam up when I ask you what's wrong," Iris tells her boyfriend. Iris is probably making this frequency judgment because she can remember a few times that her boyfriend wouldn't tell her what was bothering him. Iris is using the _______ heuristic.

Which of these facts casts doubt on the linguistic relativity hypothesis?

Compared to less creative individuals, creative persons:

Which is MOST likely the prototype for the concept "fruit"?

Trial and error ultimately guarantees a problem's solution.

Shiloh is skilled at regulating her feelings and adapting to social situations; in Goleman's terms, Shiloh is high in practical intelligence.

The roots of dyslexia lie in difficulties with syntactic processing.

Research suggests that a positive mood may encourage insight.

When one's memory for an event is especially vivid, one may overestimate the likelihood of the event's future occurrence.

Rules are to experience as formal concept is to natural concept.

In about 75% of all cases, the cause of intellectual disability is unknown.

Briefly describe Terman's study of the intellectually gifted and suggest how its results contradict popular stereotypes of the intellectually gifted.

Which sequence correctly arranges the levels of the concept hierarchy from the broadest to the most specific?

The definition of intelligence varies from culture to culture.

Mental representations of categories of objects, situations, or ideas that share common features are called:

If one were to plot the IQ scores of every person in the United States on a graph, one would end up with a:

Generating many potential solutions for a problem is called:

Emotional intelligence is positively associated with:

Nigel often cites newspaper editorials favoring the presidential candidate he supports and ignores editorials critical of the candidate. Nigel appears prone to:

A cause cannot be identified in approximately _____% of the cases of intellectual disability.