Psych: Chapter 7 quiz

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An intelligence score that falls below_____ indicates significant cognitive delays and may be indicative of an intellectual disability.

70

Which individual was asked by the French government to create an assessment tool -an intelligence test of sorts- that would be used to identify schoolchildren who would be more likely to have difficulty in school?

Alfred Binet

Rudy is amazing in all of his school classes, except math. He struggles to understand basic arithmetic concepts, confuses mathematical symbols like "+" and "=", and gets very frustrated and upset at the thought of doing math homework. Rudy has a normal level of cognitive functioning in other areas, and reads and writes with ease. Rudy's parents may want to have him evaluated to see if he suffers from ________.

Dyscalculia

The type of intelligence that involves seeing complex relationships and solving problems is _______ intelligence?

Fluid Intelligence

What is confirmation bias?

Focusing on information that confirms your existing beliefs

Which concept is a type of mental set where you cannot perceive an object being used for something other than what it was designed for?

Functional fixedness

Niaz's car breaks down, and he is convinced that it was a predictable event even though there was no way of knowing it would happen. This exemplifies ________.

Hindsight bias

Which term refers to the vocabulary of a language or the words contained within that language?

Lexicon

Nima excels at working with numbers in subjects such as calculus and algebra. This exemplifies ________ intelligence from the multiple intelligences theory.

Logical-Mathematical

Which statistic is a measure of how data are dispersed in a population and can be used to give context to larger data sets?

Standard Deviation


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