Exam 8: Cognition and Intelligence

Compared to the relatively unsuccessful intellectually gifted in Terman's study, the successful ones were

The subtests of Digit Span and Arithmetic make up which section of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV)?

Regarding intelligence, creativity, rational thinking, and wisdom, which of the following statements is FALSE?

You are asked to come up with new ways to clean oil off a beach, so you look in the dictionary at randomly selected words, such as weed, rust, poor, magnify, foam, coal, and so on. You try to relate them to the problem and see what thoughts they trigger. You are

Selective encoding is the ability to compare new problems with old information or with problems already solved.

Regarding language, which of the following statements is FALSE?

People readily get married even though the divorce rate is almost 50 percent, which illustrates how people in deciding to get married tend to ignore the __________.

When you form a mental image of "a tree," the brain area where memories are stored sends signals back to the visual cortex to create that image through a process known as __________.

Insight tends to be based on reorganizing the problem.

The dictionary definition of a word is its __________ meaning.

Fixations and functional fixedness are specific types of mental sets.

Alfred Binet is best known for

Quickly making sense of tiny slivers of experience is not a case of hurried irrationality, but is a case of "__________."

Describe what distinguishes creative thinking from more routine problem-solving; define the creative processes of fluency, flexibility, and originality; differentiate between convergent and divergent thinking; identify three ways that creativity can be measured; and explain why creativity involves more than just the production of original answers.

A label on a food package that states that this particular food is 80 percent fat-free sounds better than stating that the food consists of 20 percent fat. This difference in labeling illustrates how our problem solving is affected by __________.

Linguistic, logical-mathematical, and visual-spatial skills are three of Gardner's eight intelligences that are measured by traditional IQ tests.

Regarding gestures and American Sign Language (ASL), which of the following statements is FALSE?

Mental images can be used to aid memory, change one's feelings, make a decision, or improve a skill.

If a robin is an ideal model of a bird, then a robin would be considered a prototype of this concept.

Making immediate, intuitive judgements based on short segments of experience is called