Exam 6: Section 3: Thinking and Intelligence

Which intelligence theorist emphasized the g factor?

Overestimating the probability of dying in an airplane crash is likely the result of using the _____.

The folding problem in which you are asked to estimate the thickness of a 0.1 millimeter sheet of paper folded in on itself 100 times illustrates how the _____ can lead to dramatic underestimates of the correct answer to an estimation problem.

Which statement about test reliability and validity is FALSE?

The Flynn effect refers to the observation that average intelligence test scores in the United States and other Western industrialized nations have _____ over the past century.

In the Linda problem, if you judge that it is more likely that Linda is a bank teller and active in the feminist movement than that Linda is a bank teller, you are using the _____ heuristic and committing the _____ fallacy.

In the 2-4-6 problem, participants demonstrate _____ in testing their hypotheses.

Which intelligence theorist proposed three types of intelligence-analytical, practical, and creative?

The tendency to think of only the most typical uses of objects in a problem setting is called _____.

The intelligence test scores for _____ are most strongly correlated.

A person who questions the validity of the research findings that indicate smoking leads to health problems because he knows someone who has smoked most of his life and has no health problems is using _____.

The representativeness heuristic leads us to _____.

A heritability estimate of 100 percent for intelligence in a given population means that the variation in intelligence for this population is determined _____.

Mistakenly believing that two events are related is called _____.

If you compute the area of a room by using the formula length $\times$ width = area, you are using _____.