Exam 6: Thinking and Intelligence

Agatha Harkness-Smythe is determined to ban guns in the United States. This is a controversial topic and social scientists have debated whether the ownership of guns by citizens increases or decreases crime. Agatha could go to the library and look up studies on the linkage between guns and crime rates. Instead, Agatha just reads the local newspaper and only cuts out articles about robberies in which the "bad guy" used a firearm. Agatha is demonstrating

Don tells Ray he wants to get a new sports car. Ray immediately understands why, because he is familiar with the common characteristics of sports cars and knows what makes them different from family cars. Ray is using mental categories called

Einstein would be considered to be ________ in ________.

Which brain-scan methods are used to study thought processing with specific brain areas?

Creativity is a process that produces ________ responses that contribute to the solutions of problems.

Using most tests of intelligence, the cut-off score at which a person is labeled as "gifted" is

Which of the following is true of creativity?

________ are clusters of knowledge that provide general conceptual frameworks regarding certain topics, events, and situations.

Most researchers who study the role of race and IQ testing have concluded that

Riley has figured out how to unlock his bedroom door with a paper clip. What has he most likely overcome in his new use of the paper clip?

Culture-fair tests attempt to measure

Define what is involved in cognition.

Researchers typically stress that a key aspect of intelligence is

What is chronological age?

Robert Sternberg would say that a person who does not do well in school despite having a lot of "street smarts"

What systematic problem-solving method guarantees a solution, provided that it is applied properly?

On an IQ test, a child scores a mental age of seven years. What is their IQ score?

If intelligence is determined primarily by heredity, which pair should show the highest correlation between IQ scores?

Most standardized tests of intelligence have a distribution of scores that

According to Robert Sternberg, which type of intelligence is least likely to predict success in an academic environment?