Exam 9: Extension B: Cognition, Language, Creativity, and Intelligence

You can become more creative by

The _____ section of the Stanford-Binet would have questions similar to the following: "If you have 30 oranges and give 5 oranges to each of your 3 brothers, how many oranges will you have left?"

Which of the following is one of Csikszentmihalyi's recommendations about how to become more creative?

If you score at the 50^th percentile on an intelligence test, this means that your IQ is

Characteristics of creativity include

The correlation between IQ and creativity is

If one ignores the base rate when making a decision, it usually leads to

Which of the following statements about creative people is TRUE?

A cook does not have any clean mixing bowls and fails to see that he could use a frying pan as a bowl.This illustrates which barrier to problem-solving?

In selecting a career, it is best to

Thought that is intuitive, haphazard, or personal is termed

Often when children are first introduced to mathematical word problems, they begin adding the two numbers listed within the problem rather than paying attention to the most important part of the problem, which asks "How many will you have LEFT?" This illustrates the _____ barrier to problem solving.

When you are asked to make as many new words as possible by rearranging the letters in the word intelligence, you are using

Intelligence cannot be

Claudia's failure to see that a trash bag would make an excellent makeshift raincoat is an example of

The average _____-year-old should be able to copy a circle and build a bridge using three blocks.

The professor asks a general question of the class, and although you think you might know the answer, you don't raise your hand to answer because you're afraid that if you're wrong, the other students might laugh at you.You are experiencing a(n) _____ barrier to problem-solving.

In order to discover whether the king had been cheated, Archimedes began by asking himself, "How can I tell what metals have been used in the crown without damaging it?" At this point, Archimedes is in which stage of creative thought?

When one's mental age is the same as one's actual age in years, then

That many people vote for a candidate based more on whether they like the candidate or not, rather than voting for the candidate that is the most qualified for the job, illustrates how _____ tends to affect one's judgment.