Exam 7: Cognition and Mental Abilities

Clayton is looking for a house to buy. As he looks at different houses, he weighs the different features that each offers. For instance, while he prefers a brick house, he saw a wooden house that had a better floor plan, a reasonable price, and was in a good school district. Clayton decides that the wooden house is a better buy despite not being made of brick. His decision-making style involved the use of a ________.

Emilio is an IT consultant for several different companies. One company hired him to install a firewall against a newly discovered cyber-threat, and it took him 45 hours to complete. Another company asked him to do something similar, and it only took him 30 hours. The most likely reason for his faster solution this time is ________.

The current version of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale measures ________ kinds of mental abilities.

All animals communicate.

Which of the following groups of children are most likely to have the most similar IQ scores?

Robert is applying for a job as a legal secretary. In addition to testing his secretarial skills, the law firm is most likely to test his general intelligence by administering the ________.

Using the criteria of meaningfulness, displacement, and productivity, ________.

Discuss the importance of problem representation in the problem-solving process.

The Remote Associates Test asks subjects to ________.

Define framing, hindsight bias, and counterfactual thinking, and explain their respective roles in decision-making.

The three most important building blocks of thought are ________.

After his football team wins a close game on a very risky play that rarely works, Greg says, "I KNEW that play would win the game for us." In reality, he wasn't at all sure it would work until after the play was completed. His thinking is an example of ________.

Currently, ________ refers to superior IQ combined with demonstrated or potential ability in such areas as academic aptitude and creativity.

The Christensen-Guilford Test is a test of ________.

People with high IQs tend to enter high-status occupations.

In taking a multiple-choice test, you first read the question and try to develop an answer. Then you check to see if your answer is one of the choices. If it's not, you try to eliminate any obviously wrong alternatives, and finally try to find the best answer from among those that remain. This problem-solving strategy is an example of ________.

The type of thinking required to solve problems requiring a creative, flexible, or inventive solution is ________ thinking.

Mental categories for classifying specific objects, people, and experiences are known as ________.

After problem interpretation, the next step in problem solving is ________.

Critics of IQ tests claim that the only thing they really measure is ________.