Exam 7: Section 5: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Crissy likes to drive fast, counting on her matronly appearance and southern charm to avoid getting a speeding ticket. She believes that most speeders who get tickets are young males driving high-performance cars, so she was surprised when an officer pulled her over and gave her a $200 speeding ticket despite the fact that she had three kids with soccer balls and uniforms in the back of her SUV. Crissy was misled by the _____ in her belief that she was highly unlikely to get a speeding ticket.

After his imported, top-rated fifteen-speed mountain bike was stolen, Jason decides to replace it with the least expensive ten-speed he can find so that he won't have to worry about it. Which decision-making strategy is Jason using?

Emma overheard the driver education instructor rant and rave about how the girls in Emma's group were the worst drivers he'd ever had the misfortune to teach in his 30 years of teaching high school students how to drive. When it was Emma's turn to practice her driving skills with the instructor, she performed worse than usual, forgetting to use turn signals, turning the wheel the wrong way when backing up, and running over two plastic cones when attempting to parallel park. What is the MOST likely explanation for Emma's poor performance behind the wheel?

"The global capacity to think rationally, act purposefully, and deal effectively with the environment" is:

In psychology, twin studies are typically used to:

A concept can BEST be described as a(n):

A friend asks you which three books you would take if you knew you were going to be marooned on a desert island for a year. Because language has the characteristic of _____, you are able to have a meaningful conversation about the topic, even though you're not really marooned on a desert island.

A well-designed psychological test has which of the following characteristics?

Psychologist _____ strongly believed that all mental abilities were related to a single common factor called the _____ factor.

Several problems have been assigned as part of your physics homework. One problem asks you to determine the relative velocity of a variety of moving objects. To answer the question, you solve a complex mathematical equation. Which problem-solving strategy are you using?

The study of animal cognition focuses on:

Hannah is writing a research paper on autism spectrum disorder. She is particularly interested in individuals who are called "autistic savants." According to the In Focus box Neurodiversity: Beyond IQ, about _____ percent of people with autism spectrum disorder are considered to be autistic savants.

Creativity often depends on:

_____ is defined as the tendency to view objects as functioning only in their usual or customary way.

In the model of intuition described in your text, Stage _____, the _____ stage, involves conscious, analytic thinking.

One day, Ethan had "a feeling" that he was going to get a phone call from a long-lost friend. That evening, an old high school classmate called, inviting him to attend a class reunion. Now Ethan is telling everyone that he is psychic. According to your textbook, which cognitive bias provides the BEST explanation for Ethan's belief?

The term "heritability" refers to the:

Dividing a person's mental age by her chronological age and multiplying the answer by 100 is:

A new friend asks you to describe the house you grew up in. You pause and think for a moment. You will need to use _____ to answer her question.

In Lewis Terman's study of 1,500 California children between the ages of 8 and 12 who had IQs above 140, findings revealed that: