Exam 6: Section 2: Thinking and Intelligence

Kevin's reaction range for intelligence (IQ) is between 90 and 130. Which of the following factors would predict that Kevin might reach the upper limits of his reaction range?

Unable to find a needle and thread, Kim doesn't consider using a stapler to temporarily fix the hem of her skirt. Her failure to consider the stapler BEST illustrates _____.

Mental set is _____.

Regarding theories of intelligence, Charles Spearman believed that _____ was (were) MOST important and Thurstone believed that _____ was (were) MOST important.

For days, Dianne had been trying to think of a way to approach her parents about her desire to transfer to a new college. While watching a TV commercial about vacation areas, Dianne suddenly looked at her problem from a new perspective and thought of a solution. Dianne's behavior BEST illustrates _____.

People are likely to use _____ to solve anagrams.

Board games are examples of _____ problems and deciding on a major in college is an example of a(n) _____ problem.

Miss Binder, a second-grade teacher, thinks that girls pass more notes in class than boys, so she watches the girls more closely than the boys. Miss Binder's behavior BEST illustrates which of the following?

A deviation IQ score is _____.

Dr. Barba, like most doctors, tends to _____ the probability that a person has a disease when a test result is positive. To accurately calculate this probability, one of the factors that Dr. Barba needs to know is the percentage of people in the population who actually have the disease, which is known as the _____ rate.

College students incorrectly judge that death by plane crash is more frequent than death from asthma. In fact, asthma is 20 times more likely to cause death. Which of the following explains this error in judgment?

Donald argues vehemently that women drive more recklessly than men do despite his awareness of statistics from multiple sources that indicate his argument is not correct. Donald is MOST specifically demonstrating _____.

A problem-solving strategy that makes use of subgoals in reducing the distance between start states and goal states is _____.

The first researcher to use deviation scores to measure intelligence was _____.

The availability heuristic is _____.

Which is NOT one of Gardner's multiple intelligences?

To determine if a relationship exists between eating spinach and being strong, in addition to considering the number of people who eat spinach and are strong, we also have to consider which of the following?

Imagine a base rate of 1 percent for a disease, a false positive rate of 10 percent, and a sensitivity rate of 90 percent for the screening test for the disease. Using natural frequencies, which of the following is the closest estimate of the conditional probability that a person actually has the disease given a positive test result?

Internal consistency on a test would be measured by _____.

Which is NOT an ill-defined problem?