Exam 7: Memory

With respect to the concept hierarchy, the _____ level is used MOST often to identify objects in everyday life.

Most of the time, people refer to concepts at the basic level.

Renee has an idea of how she wants her living room to look. She's moving furniture, paintings, and accessories to get closer and closer to that picture in her head. Renee is using _____ to reach her goal.

CT scans:

Matt picks up a pamphlet at the university counseling center titled How to Succeed at College Course Work. What kinds of problem-solving strategies are MOST likely offered in this pamphlet?

Coral's IQ score is 104. She is in good company: nearly _____ out of 10 people have IQ scores between 85 and 115.

"Gin rummy, games, cards." With reference to the concept hierarchy, this phrase denotes the _____, _____, and _____ levels, respectively.

The textbook defines fluency as the ability to create many potential solutions. It defines divergent thinking as the ability to devise many solutions to a problem. Based on these definitions, which coefficient is probably closest to the correlation a researcher would find between fluency scores and divergent thinking scores?

When people are asked which is more common, death by homicide or death by stroke, they often choose homicide because they hear about more murders than they do about strokes. In this instance, people are led astray in their judgments by:

A psychological test is valid to the extent that it:

According to the text, using male pronouns when gender is unspecified may reinforce gender biases.

Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky pioneered the study of decision-making heuristics.

Approximately what proportion of the population as a whole may be described as intellectually disabled?

Children with IQ scores above 130 are classified as gifted.

Stress may contribute to poorer decision making.

Aptitude is a synonym for intelligence.

Imagine that overall, 6-year-olds can complete a particular block design puzzle in 5 minutes. It takes 6-year-old Bailey almost 8 minutes to complete the task. In Binet's terms, Bailey's _____ age is _____ than 6.

A persistent finding in the study of group differences in intelligence is that compared to Caucasian Americans' IQ scores, African Americans' scores are, on average:

When one solves a crossword puzzle using certain mental shortcuts, he or she is using cognitive strategies psychologists call:

The availability heuristic may lead people to exaggerate the frequency of school shootings.