Quiz #6 (Sem. 2)
The distribution of intelligence test scores in the general population forms a bell-shaped patter. This pattern is called
a normal curve.
People with opposing views of capital punishment reviewed mixed evidence regarding its effectiveness as a crime deterrent. As a result, their opposing views differed more strongly than ever. This best illustrates
belief perseverance.
A prototype is a
best example of a particular category.
Consumers respond more positively to ground beef advertised as "75 perfect lean" than to ground beef described as "25 percent fat". This illustrates that consumer reactions are influenced by
framing.
Girls are most likely to outperform boys in a
grammar test.
Andrew is no smarter than his graduate school classmates, but his self-discipline and passionate dedication to long workdays resulted in notably superior academic accomplishments. Andrew's unusual level of success best illustrates the importance of
grit.
In contrast to our explicit conscious reasoning, our seemingly effortless and automatic feelings or thoughts are called
intuitions.
L.L. Thurstone identified seven clusters of primary mental abilities, including word fluency, memory, and inductive reasoning. He claimed that word fluency
involves a different dimension of intelligence from that of reasoning.
Injury to the left _____ lobe damages the convergent thinking required for successful performance on intelligence tests.
parietal
Twenty-five-year-old Alexandra has an intellectual disability and can neither read nor write. However, after hearing lengthy, unfamiliar, and complex musical selections just once, she can reproduce them precisely on the piano. It is likely that Alexandra is
someone with savant syndrome.
Howard Gardner is most likely to agree that the concept of intelligence includes
spatially analyzing visual input.
Five-year-old Wilbur performs on an intelligence test at a level characteristic of an average 4-year-old. Wilbur's mental age is
4.
About _____ percent of WAIS scores fall between 85 and 115.
68
A 12-year-old who responded to the original Stanford-Binet with the proficiency typical of an average 9-year-old was said to have an IQ of
75.
The WAIS was initially created by
David Wechsler.
Professor Jenkins believes that intelligence cannot be measured by a single intelligence scores. Rather, intelligence should be derived from seven clusters of primary mental abilities. Professor Jenkins' view of intelligence most closely resemble that of
L.L. Thurstone.
People's procedural memory of how to open the front door of their house is most likely to consist of
a mental image.
Professor Juarez is interested in measuring the difference in spatial ability between people of different ages. He intends to give these individuals a spatial abilities test during the next year. Professor Juarez will be conducting
a cross-sectional study.
Spearman's g factor refers to
a general intelligence that underlies successful performance on a wide variety of tasks.
Four-month-old Piper makes a series of repetitive consonant-vowel sounds such as ba ba ba ba. This best illustrates
babbling.
Your psychology professor has announced that the next test will assess your understanding of sensation and perception. When you receive the test, however, you find that very few questions actually relate to these topics. In this instance, you would be most concerned about the _____ of the test.
content validity
A mental set is most likely to inhibit
creativity.
Convergent thinking is to academic aptitude as divergent thinking is to
creativity.
Academic aptitude test scores are MOST likely to predict accurately the academic success of _____ students.
elementary school
The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions is called
emotional intelligence.
Compared with Gardner, Sternberg has identified _____ independent dimensions of intelligence, and his forms of intelligence have been ______ reliably measured.
fewer; more
Explaining why the best work of scientists is often produced in early adulthood while that of novelists often originates during middle adulthood requires a distinction between
fluid and crystallized intelligence.
An algorithm is a
methodical step-by-step procedure for solving problems.
By demonstrating both intelligence and grit, highly successful people demonstrate the importance of both ability and
motivation.
Convergent thinking involves
narrowing down the available solutions to a problem.
Howard Gardner identified a total of ______ relatively independent intelligences.
nine
When Larina started college, she was certain that she would never smoke marijuana. By the end of her freshman year, however, Larina had used the drug on three different occasions. Larina's experience best illustrates
overconfidence.
Psychologists would calculate the relationship between intelligence test scores and school grades in order to assess the _____ of the intelligence test.
predictive validity
The ability to produce words is to productive language as the ability to comprehend speech is to ______ language.
receptive
Research participants were asked to identify a word that could be associated meaningfully with each of three other words. Solutions that occurred with sudden insight were accompanied by a burst of activity in the brain's _____ lobe.
right temporal
The use of heuristics rather than algorithms is most likely to
save time in solving problems.
Intelligence scores are most likely to be stable over a one-year period for a
tenth-grade student whose intelligence test score is 95.
Research on racial and ethnic differences in intelligence indicates that
the average mathematics achievement test scores of Asian students are higher than those of North American students.
Morphemes are
the smallest speech units that carry meaning.
We fear too little those events that will claim lives
undramatically.
