Exam 7: Cognition and Mental Abilities

A special kind of problem solving in which we already know all the possible solutions or choices is ________.

The basic sound units of any language are called ________.

How effectively people perceive and understand their own feelings and the feelings of others, and can regulate and manage their own feeling-related behaviors is ________ intelligence.

Before Jane enrolled in a college course on introductory psychology, she thought the study of psychology was the study of how unconscious needs and desires affect our actions. Now that she is almost halfway through the course and she has studied the same areas your text has covered, ________.

Describe compensatory models. Also, discuss the role of representativeness, availability, and the confirmation bias in decision making. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of each technique in your discussion.

Which of the following situations exemplifies a proper mode of administration or use of an intelligence test?

Thurstone's definition of intelligence includes ________.

Research on heredity and socioeconomic status has found that heredity has ________.

By age 5, human children have a vocabulary of between ________ words.

Summarize research findings on language and cognition in animals.

The three most important building blocks of thought are ________.

A mental model containing the most typical features of a concept is called a(n) ________.

Cliff is a manager of a restaurant. He refuses to hire elderly people to help out in the restaurant because he believes they are too senile to do the work properly. He is so convinced of this that he refuses to even look at the resumes of elderly individuals who come in to apply for work. Cliff's discriminatory behavior is an example of ________.

The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale was introduced by ________.

Ruby received a score of 90 on an intelligence test. Two days later she received a score of 55 on a different form of the same test. The test was apparently lacking in ________.

When test results are in agreement with some other direct and independent measure of that which the test is designed to predict, the test exhibits ________.

About seventy percent of the population has IQ scores between ________.

Failing to see that a wrench can also be used to hammer a nail is an example of ________.

John is taking his English Literature final on Friday, and he is trying to find strategies to cope with the problem of organizing the material. Which of the following is the best advice you could give him?

Most concepts are simple and clear cut.