Exam 8: Thinking and Intelligence

Jacquelyn's fiancé broke up with her the week before their wedding. Her friends and family are worried about her depression. You could comfort them by telling them that within about six months, Jacquelyn will:

One probable reason that children with more affluent parents tend to have higher IQs is that these children are more likely to:

In contrast to Gardner's idea of several independent intelligences dealing with different intellectual content, Sternberg's theory involves:

Peter is very precocious. At four he is already starting to read and has the vocabulary of a ten-year-old. Peter's parents are very academic. Their house is filled with books and intellectual conversation. What is the most reasonable conclusion about the source of Peter's high intelligence?

Brain scan studies have found that an area of the frontal lobe is active whenever someone is engaged in intellectual activity. Which theory of intelligence is supported by this finding?

Alejandro does not know much about Mr. Smith but votes to send him to Ottawa. Alejandro likes the Liberal Party and Mr. Smith is a member of that party, so he assumes that he will like Mr. Smith. After the election, Alejandro finds that Mr. Smith does not act like a Liberal and he regrets having voted for him. Alejandro's mistake was forgetting that:

Emotional intelligence encompasses which of Gardner's multiple intelligences?

Which of the following statements about categorization is a problem for the defining attribute model?

Which of the following is the best evidence that genetics plays an important role in determining intelligence?

People who are very mathematical are often also very musical. For which theory of intelligence is this a problematic finding?

Choose the best way to describe the modern version of the nature/nurture question about intelligence:

When Mandy and Joe meet, Joe tells her that he loves math and computers and his favourite hobbies have always involved building things. Mandy concludes that Joe must be an engineering student rather than a liberal arts student, even though there are many more liberal arts than engineering students at their school. Mandy is using the ____________ heuristic and ignoring ____________.

Marcus notices that his Russian professor is carrying a stack of papers when he enters the room. Marcus quickly takes out his notes and reviews the most recent grammar and vocabulary. Sure enough, there is a surprise quiz. Marcus is able to get a perfect score on his quiz because his schema of a university class allowed him to:

Based on the Flynn effect, what factor has NOT been involved in the increase in IQ scores over the last century?

The framing effect is so effective because it arranges the perceived situation so that:

Hoanh's mother died at the early age of 40. Hoanh is deeply saddened and grieves intensely for her. According to the tenets of affective forecasting, in several months Hoanh is likely to feel:

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 that you saw your keys. This strategy is an example of:

Your neighbour is upset because you borrowed his car without asking him. He is distressed because borrowing a car without asking is not part of our social:

A major problem with the prototype model is that it does NOT:

Which of the following is NOT an example of an analogical representation?