Exam 7: Cognitive Processes

Which of the following is one of Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences?

Your best friend has been acting rather cool toward you lately.As you try to figure out why,you are engaging in the process called:

Which type of thinking is most often associated with creativity?

Morphemes are:

Your text states that "only humans seem capable of creating an infinite number of new sentences." With respect to the components of language,then,only humans seem to possess:

Psychologists use the term _____ to refer to the process whereby people judge whether someone's behavior reflects something internal about that person,or instead something about the person's situation.

When we make external attributions we are identifying the cause of an action as something:

What term do psychologists use to describe our tendency to search for evidence that supports our belief and to ignore evidence that might disprove it?

According to your textbook authors,Low and Gendaszek (2002)found that about 1 in _____ college students reported using prescription stimulants such as Adderall to improve their academic performance.

A loose screw on the visor causes it to drop down while Ben drives; however,he keeps forgetting to take a screwdriver out to the car to fix it.When he notices the visor drop again,he reaches into his pocket for a dime he uses to tighten the screw holding the visor.What problem-solving difficulty did Ben overcome?

You observe a person at the grocery store get angry and yell at the cashier.Which of these attributions illustrates the fundamental attribution error?

American Sign Language has few,if any,of the syntactic structures found in spoken languages.

If intelligence is determined primarily by heredity,which pair should show the highest correlation between IQ scores?

The phrase "I tried" has ________ morpheme(s).

Which of the following brain areas is primarily involved in speech comprehension?

Alfred Binet designed one of the first widely used __________ tests.

Miles took a personality assessment test and the results indicated he was a stable,outgoing extrovert.Six weeks later he took the same test,only this time the results indicated he was moody,difficult to get along with,and socially withdrawn.The test Miles has taken is:

The process of producing something that is both original and worthwhile is termed:

Measuring intelligence by testing is a rather new concept in the history of the world.The idea of such testing came from:

The reaction-range model is best described as a(n)_______ account of individual differences in intelligence.