Question 1

When members of the Kpelle tribe in Liberia were asked to sort objects "like a fool would do it," they grouped them together

Accepted Answer

A) haphazardly. 
B) by category, such as containers, clothing, and eating utensils. 
C) by functional association, such as food being placed with the utensil used to eat it. 
D) like their own culture sorts objects.

Question 2

If people did not _____, they would probably not make the decisions to marry in the face of a 50 percent divorce rate or start high-risk businesses.

Accepted Answer

A) ignore the base rate 
B) use the representative heuristic 
C) use a random search strategy 
D) deductively reason

Question 3

A 12-year-old child with an IQ of 100 would have a mental age of

Accepted Answer

A) 10. 
B) 12. 
C) 100. 
D) 120.

Question 4

According to the text, framing is associated with which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A) morphemes 
B) decision-making 
C) the structure of intelligence 
D) creative production

Question 5

In Binet's test of intelligence, items included at each age level were those which

Accepted Answer

A) could be answered by an average child of that age. 
B) measured rote learning and memory. 
C) revealed a child's grade level in school. 
D) required creative as well as correct answers.

Question 6

If you know that your best friend is allergic to shellfish, you know that she is allergic to clams, oysters, shrimp, and lobster.Going from this general statement of allergy to shellfish to specific examples of this allergy illustrates

Accepted Answer

A) deductive thought. 
B) inductive thought. 
C) intuitive thought. 
D) creative thought.

Question 7

On a creativity test, you are asked to list all the uses of a paper clip.The more unusual or novel your answers the higher will be your _____ score.

Accepted Answer

A) flexibility 
B) fluency 
C) originality 
D) elaboration

Question 8

Each factor on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition is measured with _____ questions involving words and numbers and _____ questions involving the use of pictures and objects.

Accepted Answer

A) verbal; non-verbal 
B) explicit; implicit 
C) convergent; divergent 
D) concrete; creative

Question 9

The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition yields a score for

Accepted Answer

A) general intelligence. 
B) verbal and for nonverbal intelligence. 
C) each of the five cognitive factors. 
D) all of these.

Question 10

More American college students than Chinese students were able to solve the cave problem by recalling the "Hansel and Gretel story," while more Chinese students than American students solved the statue's weight problem by recalling the "weighing the elephant" fable.These differing percentages illustrate that.our ability to use _____ to solve problems is related to cultural differences, such as the fables and stories told to our children as they are growing up.

Accepted Answer

A) selective encoding. 
B) selective combination. 
C) selective comparison. 
D) selective algorithms.

Question 11

Thinking that is directed toward the discovery of a single established correct answer is known as _____ thinking.

Accepted Answer

A) deductive 
B) convergent 
C) divergent 
D) intuitive

Question 12

Jason has a mental age of five and a chronological age of four.His IQ is

Accepted Answer

A) 80. 
B) 110. 
C) 125. 
D) 145.

Question 13

While reading a book about Sigmund Freud, you come upon the term psychosomatic.You cannot quite figure out the meaning of the word from the context in which it is used, and so you bring to mind your rudimentary knowledge of the parts of the word.You know that psycho has to do with the mind or with thinking, and you also know that somatic has to do with the body.Looking back at the book, you come to the conclusion that psychosomatic has to do with the mind's influence on one's physical state.You have just relied on selective

Accepted Answer

A) attention. 
B) encoding. 
C) comparison. 
D) solving strategies.

Question 14

Csikszentmihalyi's recommendation for becoming more creative include which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A) Make a commitment to doing things well. 
B) Take time for thinking and relaxing. 
C) Find something that surprises you every day. 
D) all of these

Question 15

When we must make a choice, our _____ regarding various alternatives can determine what intuitively may seem to be the right answer.

Accepted Answer

A) knowledge of the base rate 
B) divergent thinking 
C) deductive reasoning 
D) emotional reactions

Question 16

To calculate IQ, one divides

Accepted Answer

A) MA by CA and multiplies by 100. 
B) CA by MA and divides by 100. 
C) MA by CA and divides by 100. 
D) CA by MA and multiplies by 100.

Question 17

The fear of making a fool of yourself or of making a mistake is a(n) _____ barrier to problem-solving.

Accepted Answer

A) cultural 
B) learned 
C) perceptual 
D) emotional

Question 18

A _____ is obtained statistically from a person's relative standing in his or her age group and expresses how far above or below average the person's score was in comparison to the other scores.

Accepted Answer

A) ratio IQ 
B) mental age 
C) deviation IQ 
D) chronological IQ

Question 19

A(n) _____ definition of intelligence would involve specifying what procedures were used to measure intelligence.

Accepted Answer

A) conditional 
B) contemporary 
C) operational 
D) normal curve

Question 20

Malcolm Gladwell, in his recent book Blink, uses the term _____ to refer to our immediate, intuitive reactions to short segments of experience.

Accepted Answer

A) syllogisms 
B) proxemics 
C) "thin-slicing" 
D) the "AHA! experience"

Exam 9: Extension B: Cognition, Language, Creativity, and Intelligence