Exam 9: Thinking and Intelligence

________ proposed the idea that there are multiple types of intelligence, including such things as musical aptitude, kinesthetic intelligence, and the capacity for insight into ourselves and others.

Match each definition with the appropriate term. -a form of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from certain premises; if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true

Karyn is just about to use a photocopier when Bob scurries up saying, "Excuse me, may I use the Xerox machine, because I have to make copies." According to our textbook, Karyn is likely to comply with Bob's request because:

If you were playing a game of chess, you might try to analyze all of the possible moves and then pick the best one, but there are just too many, so you will probably use a strategy such as "protect the king." Such "rules of thumb" are known as:

Match each definition with the appropriate term. -a tendency to solve problems using procedures that worked before on similar problems

Between the First World War and the 1960s, the intelligence tests developed for use in schools favoured:

The tendency to look for or pay attention only to information that supports one's own belief is called:

Heuristics would be useful for all of the following individuals EXCEPT a/an:

Tacit knowledge about how to be a good student predicts academic success in college as well as entrance exams do.

Which of the following is most likely to be classified as a basic concept?

A process in which opposing facts are weighed and compared to determine the best solution is called:

Basic concepts are distinguished from concepts in general by the fact that basic concepts:

Connie's method of studying worked effectively throughout high school until she took her first foreign language course. In this course, her grades were much lower than usual. How might mental set have played a role in Connie's academic problem?

Kathryn's grandma says that if Kathryn uses the old family recipe for Irish soda bread, then she is guaranteed to have delicious results. Kathryn's grandma is encouraging her granddaughter to:

In Canada, which of the following would be considered a prototype of the concept "sport"?

Which of the following is in the correct order from the basic building blocks of thought to complex networks of knowledge?

When creativity has been studied, it has been noted that:

People have reported visual and auditory mental images, but mental images do not occur in other sensory modalities.

The tendency to not avoid loss altogether in certain economic decisions is called:

In the ________ stages, people understand that some things can never be known with certainty and some judgments are more valid than others.