Exam 7: Cognition

Criticisms of Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences include ________.

Terman's study of gifted children over a long period of their lives clearly demonstrated that the gifted were lacking in social skills,had poor health,and were generally unhappy.

The ability to learn from one's experiences,and use resources effectively when faced with challenges or problems is the psychologist's working definition of ________.

________ intelligence has been suggested by Goleman to be a more powerful influence on life than more traditional views.

Which was NOT a finding of the Terman and Oden (1947)study of gifted kids?

The ability to solve problems by combining behaviors and ideas in new ways is called ________.

Which of these is one of Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences?

The tendency to perceive and approach problems in the same ways that have worked in the past is called ________.

Researchers have found that,despite the number of color names in a language,the basic abilities to perceive color are unchanged.This finding would be troublesome for the theory of ________.

When a problem is seen as having only one answer,with all lines of thinking leading to that answer,this is known as divergent thinking.

People are termed gifted in terms of intelligence if their IQ exceeds 130.

Like most characteristics of a population,WAIS-IV scores are distributed in a bell or normal curve.Which of the following is an accurate characteristic of those types of curves?

The concept of the confirmation bias specifically assumes that we are most likely to believe ________.

Psychological tests that yield relatively consistent results are said to be ________.

Which of these is an element of the formal definition of intellectual disability?

Which of the following is NOT one of the three areas of intelligence described by Sternberg?

Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences divides intelligence into ________ independent abilities.

A group of psychologists reviews the literature on the heritability of intelligence.They conclude that most of the estimates indicate that ________ percent of intelligence is due to genetics.

A seemingly arbitrary flash "out of the blue," through which the solution to a problem suddenly becomes apparent to you,but you do not consciously know how you "figured it out," is called ________.

The system of rules that governs how we combine words to form grammatical sentences is called ________.