Exam 7: Cognition

Jordan is a 10-year-old boy who has a mental age of 8 years.His IQ would be ________.

What systematic problem-solving method guarantees a solution,provided that one exists?

Animals such as dolphins or chimps have shown some language-like behavior but have not been seen to demonstrate the language skills equal to that of a 3-year-old human child.

Which of the following is one of the animals that has been taught to use language with some success?

When people are asked to say how many windows they have in their dwelling,the amount of time people take to come up with the answer ________.

Coming up with as many different uses of a brick as possible,such as using them for doorstops,is a type of ________ thinking.

Which of the following questions would be more likely to produce divergent thinking?

________ thinking works well for routine problem solving but may be of little use when a more creative solution is needed.

Don tells Ray that 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 ________.

Which is NOT a characteristic of creative people?

PET scans have demonstrated that when you are creating a visual image,________.

Charles Spearman believed that intelligence is composed of ________.

Regular aerobic exercise has been found to increase neurogenesis in:

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 ________.

Beliefs that being gifted or a genius lead to being weird,socially awkward,or more likely to suffer from mental illnesses,were put to rest by ________.

Riley has figured out how to unlock his bedroom door with a paper cli

Frank mistakenly believes that there are more words that begin with the letter "k" than there are with the letter "k" in the third position due to the ________.

People began measuring intelligence through tests roughly________ years ago.

Gardner and his associates are known for proposing ________.

Alfred Binet designed the first ________ test.