Ch. 7 GP

Raymond Cattell was a psychologist who _______.

divided intelligence into two components

A(n) ________ is the best example, or representation, of a concept.

prototype

_______ are categories or groupings of linguistic information, images, ideas, or memories, such as life experiences.

Concepts

Carmen believes her assistant, Liane, is incompetent. She notices only what Liane does wrong while ignoring the above average quality of most of her work. This exemplifies _________ bias.

Confirmation

Kay cuts her foot while hiking. She forgot to pack bandages, but she has a tube of superglue and uses that to seal the wound. Kay's ability to invent a solution uses the _______ intelligence component of the triarchic theory of intelligence.c

Creative

A(n) _______schema is also known as a cognitive script.

Event

Navigating your way home through unfamiliar route due to road construction would draw upon your _________ intelligence.

Fluid

The fact that English grammar dictates that most verbs end in-ed to indicate past tense is an example of the _________ component of language.

Grammar

From a psychological perspective, the term cognition means _______.

Thinking

Sensations and information are received by our brains, filtered through emotions and memories, and processed to become _______.

Thoughts

From ________ months old, children are most capable of using simple sentences such as "I see."

18 to 24

After the first few months of life, babies enter what is known as the ________ stage, during which time they tend to produce single syllables, such as buh-buh, that are repeated over and over.

Babbling

Which researchers suggested that language determines thought?

Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf

Knowing what a dinosaur is because you looked through a book with pictures of dinosaurs and watched the film Jurassic Park is an example of a natural concept that was developed through _______ experience.

Indirect

Which term describes a communication system that uses systematic rules to organize words to transmit information from one individual to another?

Language

An anchoring bias occurs when you focus on _______.

One piece of information versus all of the information

Which of the following is an example of an abstract, complex concept?

Patriotism

A(n) _______ is a basic sound unit of a given language.

Phoneme

Who developed the triarchic theory of intelligence?

Robert Sternbery

What is confirmation bias?

focusing on information that confirms your existing beliefs