Exam 7: Cognition and Mental Abilities

Hyde's research found that female workers were likely to be rated least positively when the term ________ was used to describe workers in general.

Which of the following intelligence tests was designed primarily for use with adults?

According to Sternberg, the ability find solutions to personal problems involves ________ intelligence.

IQ tests reliably predict school performance.

In some cases, the solution to a problem may be as simple as retrieving information from memory.

Mental set and functional fixedness are both potential obstacles to effective problem solving.

Explain the linguistic relativity hypothesis and summarize the evidence regarding links between language and thought.

Spoken language is based on units of sound units called ________.

Barbara does not do very well on IQ tests or in school. Yet she picks up new skills quite quickly and carries out her assigned tasks effectively and efficiently. Her intellectual strengths appear to be ________.

Ivan is a consultant who has been asked to solve a technical problem for an electronics firm. When he arrives at the firm, he finds that the problem is exactly like a problem he has solved before. The first time he solved the problem it took him 37 hours. This time it takes him 26 hours. The most likely reason for his faster solution this time is ________.

________ percent of the population has IQ scores between 70 and 130.

An investigator who correlates the scores on the odd-numbered items of a test with the scores on the even-numbered items of the same test is establishing ________.

Stereotyped communications about an animal's current state are called ________.

Which of the following would be considered a phoneme?

Among the population as a whole, IQ scores have ________ in recent years.

Which of the following is not a typical cause of severe retardation?

Children in the Skeels study who were left to be raised in orphanages showed ________.

The IQs of identical twins reared together are usually found to be ________.

Research on Americans and math performance found that most American students believed that ________ was the most important factor in math performance, and most American teachers and parents believed that ________ was the most important factor in math performance.

A solution that begins at the goal and proceeds to the givens is called means-end analysis.