Exam 7: Memory

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

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

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

Approximately how many phonemes are found in English?

Which of the following is MOST likely to draw on fluid intelligence?

Which of the following is true of heuristics?

Your friend asks you,"So,what did you get up to last night?" Write two or three sentences in response to your friend;use your sentences to illustrate the three components of language described in your text.

Dr.Salim is a linguist,studying the rules guiding the order of words and phrases in several of the world's languages.Dr.Salim is a(n):

Ricky tells his grandmother,"Momma holded the rabbit." According to your text,Ricky's statement exemplifies:

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

You check the time on your phone.Your friend should be out of class by now.You call her.She should answer if she's out of class.In this example,your thought processes are best seen as exemplifying:

The g-factor is:

Sandy,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,Sandy finds a dime in the hospital parking lot.What does research on the confirmation bias suggest that Sandy will do?

Which of the following sequences best reflects the order of the three broad phases of the problem-solving process,from first to last?

Distinguish between an algorithm and a heuristic.Provide an example of each.

Connie is telling her mother a story about a scary dog she encountered in a neighbor's yard."Then I runned away," Connie concludes.Which language acquisition phenomenon is Connie demonstrating? About how old is Connie?

An online intelligence test yields a different IQ each time you take it.The test is:

Suppose you meet a woman who opposes the death penalty.You then decide that,generally,women are more likely to oppose the death penalty than are men.That is,you assume that the individual case is depictive of its category.Here you have fallen prey to:

Someone relying on convergent thinking would answer _____ to the query "What can you do with a toothbrush?"

A prototype is: