Question 1

Which of the following is an example of a lower-order concept?

Accepted Answer

A)  animal 
B)  bird 
C)  dog 
D)  parakeet

Question 2

The Flynn Effect refers to the increase in IQ scores over the years, and it may be due to _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  improved public education 
B)  increased innate intelligence 
C)  better nutrition 
D)  a and c

Question 3

When you use a knife as a screwdriver, you have _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  overcome functional fixedness 
B)  ruined the knife 
C)  ruined the screw 
D)  done the dumbest thing in history

Question 4

Describe the WAIS and its subsets, providing an example of a test item from each subset.

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Question 5

The statement, "Creative people buy low and sell high in the market of ideas" is most associated with _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  Skinner's view of creativity 
B)  Sternberg and Lubart's investment theory of creativity 
C)  Guilford's two-factor theory of creativity 
D)  Cattell's theory of creative thinking

Question 6

Artificial concepts would be most likely used by which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  a professor in a classroom setting when explaining a concept to students 
B)  a mother visiting a zoo and describing the animals to her toddler 
C)  a scientist who is trying to classify species of bugs 
D)  both a and c

Question 7

A child just beginning to produce vowel sounds would be exemplifying _____, and a child emitting all the sounds of human speech would be exemplifying_____.

Accepted Answer

A)  vocalizing; cooing 
B)  cooing; babbling 
C)  babbling; cooing 
D)  vocalizing; babbling

Question 8

Which of the following statements is an example of how the WAIS differs from the Stanford Binet?

Accepted Answer

A)  It was designed for adults. 
B)  It is shorter to administer. 
C)  Non-English speakers can be tested. 
D)  a and c

Question 9

Which of the following is a trait of a creative person?

Accepted Answer

A)  the ability to distinguish the worthy from the worthless 
B)  a willingness to grow and change 
C)  extrinsic motivation 
D)  a and b

Question 10

Emotionally intelligent people successfully combine the three components of emotions, ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  cognitive, physiological, and behavioral 
B)  love, hate, and jealousy 
C)  love of self, love of others, and love of animals 
D)  all of these

Question 11

The test-retest and split-half methods are used to determine a test's _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  standardization curve 
B)  validity 
C)  reliability 
D)  none of these options

Question 12

Elise wants to get an apple off of a tree, but realizes that she can't because she only has a baseball bat with her, rather than a ladder or step stool. The fact that Elise believes that the baseball bat can only be used to play baseball is an example of ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  functional rigidity 
B)  problem-solving fixedness 
C)  functional fixedness 
D)  preparedness

Question 13

Function morphemes consist of _______.

Accepted Answer

A)  prefixes 
B)  root words 
C)  suffixes 
D)  both a and c

Question 14

Who is likely to be more similar in intelligence?

Accepted Answer

A)  siblings reared apart and unrelated individual living together 
B)  identical twins reared apart and siblings reared together 
C)  fraternal twins reared together and siblings reared together 
D)  identical twins reared apart and identical twins reared together

Question 15

Define creativity and describe the three elements of creative thinking. Describe Sternberg and Lubart's investment theory of creativity and the six resources they considered to be necessary for creative thinking.

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Question 16

Which of the following is an example of a basic-level concept?

Accepted Answer

A)  animal 
B)  bird 
C)  poodle 
D)  parakeet

Question 17

According to investment theory, which of the following is a resource associated with creative people?

Accepted Answer

A)  intellectual ability 
B)  personality 
C)  brainstorming 
D)  a and b

Question 18

Discuss the "data"
for and against the belief that nonhuman animals can be taught to use language.

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for and against the belief...

Question 19

Describe the eight responses from psychologists regarding the debate about genetic factors being the cause of ethnic differences in IQ scores.

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Question 20

If you work in an environment in which you feel that you will be punished for creative ideas, it is unlikely that you will attempt to be creative. You lack the resources of _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  knowledge and personality 
B)  motivation and environment 
C)  knowledge and environment 
D)  intellectual ability and personality

Exam 8: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence