Post-Test Chapter 7
Identify the age group during which children typically understand adult literary work.
15-20
Mateo manages a fast-food restaurant. He is frustrated because employees often call in sick at the last minute before the start of their shift. Given that Mateo recognizes this problem, which of the following is the next immediate step that he should take to solve this problem?
Mateo should define the problem and develop strategies to solve it
To find out a simple, yet accurate, way of measuring customer satisfaction, Carl, the human resource manager of a company, conducts a meeting and requires all employees to openly give their ideas and suggestions. He encourages them to think creatively and come up with as many ideas as possible, from which one will be chosen. Which of the following concepts related to creative thinking does this scenario exemplify?
brainstorming
Which of the following is true of concepts?
concepts provide clues about how to react to a particular object or experience
Lionel is the CEO of a company that is going through a financial crisis. He asks his employees to brainstorm and create a list of all possible solutions to revive the company's business. In this scenario, Lionel is asking his employees to engage in
divergent thinking
Heuristics differ from algorithms in that heuristics
do not guarantee an answer
In the context of the role of language in cognition, which of the following is a contribution of linguist Benjamin Whorf (1956)?
he argues that language determines the way people think
If an intelligence test produces the same score over multiple repetitions but it doesn't accurately measure intelligence, then the test is ________ but not ________.
reliable; valid
The fact that we hear about airplane crashes on news more often than we hear about automobile crashes may lead us to believe that we are more likely to die in a plane than a car. This is an example of
the availability heuristic
Identify a fact related to creative thinkers.
they generally strive to evaluate their work objectively
