Question 1

Each of the following is a trait that contributes to emotional intelligence except ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  using emotions to motivate oneself 
B)  managing the emotions of other people 
C)  managing relationships 
D)  knowing one's own emotions

Question 2

Researchers have found that ________ influenced by culture.

Accepted Answer

A)  language, but not thought, is 
B)  thought, but not language, is 
C)  both language and thought are 
D)  neither language nor thought are

Question 3

By themselves, phonemes are ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  syntactical 
B)  units of prototypes 
C)  units of meaning 
D)  meaningless

Question 4

"In terms of content, an intelligence test should cover all seven primary abilities about equally." This statement best expresses the attitude of ________ towards intelligence tests.

Accepted Answer

A)  Thurstone 
B)  Spearman 
C)  Guilford 
D)  Cattell

Question 5

Hyde's research found that female workers were likely to be rated most positively when the term ________ was used to describe workers in general.

Accepted Answer

A)  "she" 
B)  "they" 
C)  "he" 
D)  "he or she"

Question 6

Which of the following is not true of language?

Accepted Answer

A)  Language reflects and organizes people's thoughts. 
B)  Language is closely related to the expression and understanding of thoughts. 
C)  Language captures only some of the experiences of the people who speak it. 
D)  People cannot think about things for which they have no words in their language.

Question 7

According to Whorf, language affects ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  how we think, but not what we think about 
B)  what we think about but not how we think 
C)  neither how we think nor what we think about 
D)  how we think and what we think about

Question 8

Belinda sits down to take a psychology test and finds that it is an essay test requiring creative writing to construct hypothetical situations. What type of thinking will be most important to her to do well on the test?

Accepted Answer

A)  functional thinking 
B)  divergent thinking 
C)  convergent thinking 
D)  circular thinking

Question 9

Jack had never met a professor before he went to college. However, from what he had heard, he developed a mental image of all professors being male, absent-minded, middle -aged, wearing glasses and tweed sports jackets, smoking a pipe, and speaking with a British accent. This mental image is best described as a(n) ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  compensatory model 
B)  concept 
C)  algorithm 
D)  heuristic

Question 10

Identify and compare four different heuristics for problem solving. In your discussion, describe the advantages and disadvantages of each strategy identified.

Accepted Answer

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Question 11

Which of the following is the best example of hill climbing?

Accepted Answer

A)  playing roulette at a casino without keeping track of your winnings or your losses 
B)  working out a solution to a puzzle game 
C)  constructing a model airplane 
D)  spending $100 impulsively while shopping

Question 12

Allison takes a test on Monday and earns a score of 84. When she takes the same test again on Thursday she gets an 83. The test is apparently ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  reliable 
B)  culture-fair 
C)  valid 
D)  content-related

Question 13

The idea that heredity affects IQ is best supported by the very high correlation between IQ scores of ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  fraternal twins reared together 
B)  fraternal twins reared separately 
C)  identical twins reared separately 
D)  identical twins reared together

Question 14

The phenomenon in which among the population as a whole, IQ scores have been steadily increasing over several decades is known as the ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Flynn Effect 
B)  Peter Principle 
C)  Barnum Effect 
D)  Phi Phenomenon

Question 15

Agnes has a problem and she is not sure how to go about solving it. Which of the following is a tactic likely to be useful to her in solving her problem?

Accepted Answer

A)  response set 
B)  visualizing 
C)  functional fixedness 
D)  regression

Question 16

The first step in solving a problem is called ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  image construction 
B)  problem representation 
C)  developing a prototype 
D)  developing a heuristic

Question 17

The linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests that ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  perception of surface structure precedes deep structure in understanding a sentence 
B)  we decide which objects belong to a concept according to what is most probable or sensible, given the facts at hand 
C)  one's language determines the pattern of one's thinking and view of the world 
D)  one's thinking and view of the world determines the structure of one's language

Question 18

According to Sternberg, the ability to adjust to new tasks and situations, to gain insights, and to adapt creatively requires ________ intelligence.

Accepted Answer

A)  analytical 
B)  creative 
C)  practical 
D)  exponential

Question 19

In most cases, the causes of mental retardation are unknown.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Which of the following is a type of heuristic?

Accepted Answer

A)  hill climbing 
B)  an algorithm 
C)  information retrieval 
D)  trial and error

Exam 7: Cognition and Mental Abilities