Exam 8: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Dr.Bui is conducting a series of studies examining the speed at which people can complete different cognitive tasks.She plans to examine the results to determine how information is processed in these tasks.What approach is Dr.Bui using toward the study of intelligence?

Shannon and Sayid go out for coffee.He holds the door for her,pulls out her chair,and takes the check.He is very confused when she becomes irritable with him for doing these things.You could help him understand Shannon's reactions by explaining that they probably have conflicting ________ for a man and woman going out.

When Xavier is looking for a book to buy,he takes recommendations from the staff at the local bookstore.Even though he sometimes winds up with a book that he does not like,he keeps using the staff recommendations because his strategy is a(n)________ that ________.

Samantha has always bought Japanese cars because she believes they are more reliable than cars made in the United States.Samantha has formulated a(n)________ for buying cars that may help her save time and money on her next car purchase.

Joe is especially talented at memorizing material that he reads in books.However,he has significant difficulty getting to work in the morning because the bus schedule confuses him.Joe most likely:

Alina is a straight A student in an honors business program,and she has had very prestigious internships.During her job interviews,Alina's arrogance about her own abilities comes through.She fails to realize from their reactions that the interviewers are looking for team players,not independent superstars.Alina is not offered any of these jobs because she lacks:

You are startled when you pass an 18-wheeler driven by a woman.A woman driver violates your ________ of a trucker.

Dr.LeCap is taking brain scans of people while they do simple cognitive tasks.He notices that the event-related potential (ERP)waves of 20 participants occurred significantly faster than the waves of the other 50 participants.Dr.LeCap could conclude from this finding that the 20 people with faster ERP waves are likely to be,on average,________ than the 50 people with the slower waves.

Morphemes are:

When a friend asks you to recommend a restaurant,you send her to the place where you ate last Saturday because it comes most quickly to mind.This way of thinking is an example of:

The average adult knows about:

Chomsky has argued that children:

Consider two representations.Representation A is abstract and bears no systematic relationship to what it represents,whereas Representation B shares some features of what it represents.Representation A is a(n)________ and Representation B is a(n)________.

Analogical representations ________ correspond to characteristics of the object that they represent.Symbolic representations ________ correspond to characteristics of the object that they represent.

Research indicates that the average difference in intelligence between women and men is:

You get home only to find you have lost your keys.Instead of trying to think of every place that you have been that day,you try to remember the last time you saw your keys.This strategy is a good analogy for:

The expectation that a minister will give a sermon in church,whereas a professor will give a lecture in class,comes from which property of schemas?

The finding that IQ scores have increased dramatically over the last century is known as:

Kelsey and Andreas are participating in the same two psychology experiments.The first task is to listen to a list of numbers and repeat them back in the same order.The second task is to determine how many prime numbers are on the list.Kelsey has an IQ of 123 and Andreas has an IQ of 111.There ought to be a ________ difference between Kelsey and Andreas's performance on the repetition task and a ________ difference between Kelsey and Andreas's performance on the counting prime numbers task.

If the majority of people score within one standard deviation of the mean on an IQ test,the scores may range from: