ap psych ch 9 test

Divergent thinking involves

expanding the number of possible solutions to a problem

The factors associated with creativity include:

expertise and a venturesome personality

When we suddenly realize we have solved a problem, the realization is called:

insight

Jessica believes she can complete a term paper, start to finish, in two days, so she begins the papers two days before the due date. Unfortunately, once she begins, she realizes it will more likely take four or five days to complete. Her failure to accurately determine how long the assignment would take best illustrates

overconfidence

Prompt and clear feedback regarding your performance on a psychology practice test is most likely to inhibit

overconfidence

creativity is the ability to

produce novel and valuable ideas

A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people is known as a(n):

prototype

We more quickly recognize that a blue jay is a bird than that a penguin is a bird because the blue jay more closely resembles our _____ of a bird

prototype

The two-word stage of language development typically begins when an infant is about

24 months

A lesion in this part of the brain would most likely result in a disruption of language expression

Bronca's area

Most children are in the one-word stage at:

around their first birthday

_______________ maintains that our capacity for developing language is natural and quick because we come equipped with a language acquisition device.

chompsky

Psychologists refer to the mental activities associated with processing, understanding, remembering, and communicating as:

cognition

Because he mistakenly believes that older workers are not as motivated to work hard as younger workers, a factory foreman is especially vigilant for signs of laziness among his senior employees. His supervision strategy BEST illustrates:

confirmation bias

A person who can effectively identify the best possible answers to a multiple choice test best illustrates:

convergent thinking

Students who have spent time living abroad and experiencing other cultures are more adept at:

creative problem solving

Most adults are more likely to choose a birth control method that is said to have a 95 percent success rate than one said to have a 5 percent failure rate. This best illustrates

functional fixedness

Gary says things like "doggy", "mamma", and "dada". He is in the:

one-word stage

______ refers to the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language

syntax

The easier it is for a person to remember the circumstance in which a friend betrayed him, the more he expects such an event to recur. This best illustrates the impact of:

the availability heuristic

When we estimate the likelihood of events occurring based on their availability in out memory, we presume that such events are common. This is called a(n):

the availability heuristic