week 6 quiz- psych

What decision making bias is characterized by a numeric estimate being influenced by a number or quantity shown before that estimate was made?

Anchoring

Roughly how many phonemes does the English language have?

44

What is the name of the decision making bias in which individuals tend to only look for or give credibility to information sources that support their existing viewpoint? Question 2 options: Credibility bias Expectancy bias Information bias Confirmation bias

Confirmation bias

Which of the following is a gene found to relate to language in humans?

FOXP2

What decision making bias is characterized by decisions being influenced by the direction of the outcome (e.g., gain vs loss)? Question 3 options: Misconceptions of regression Overconfidence Framing Anchoring

Framing

What letter represents Spearman's concept of general cognitive ability?

G

Which of the following is NOT one of the common intelligence tests that we covered?

INTEL

Which of the following is an example of a crystallized intelligence? Question 2 options: Visual scanning Language fluency Processing speed Reaction time

Language fluency

What is the name for the set of words and concepts that makes up the content of a language?

Lexicon

Which decision making bias results in the inability to accurately capture numerical estimates in confidence intervals of a given size?

Overconfidence

Which of the following is NOT one of the findings from the Lothian Birth Cohort studies?

Personality measured in childhood is related to IQ later in life

What is the name for the basic sounds of speech in any given language?

Phonemes

English is an S-V-O language, which is one of the two most common types of languages in terms of basic sentence structure. What is the other most common? Question 3 options: V-O-S V-S-O O-S-V S-O-V

S-O-V

Being told that you belonged to a subgroup of the population that didn't score well on psychology tests and having that information impact your performance on this test is an example of: Question 5 options: Stereotype threat Subgroup modeling The Binet effect Classical conditioning

Stereotype threat

What two parts of a sentence are required for a complete English sentence?

Subject and Verb

The ingroup-outgroup language bias suggests that humans are more likely to use _________ when describing positive actions of ingroup members. Question 1 options: predicates conjunctions verbs adjectives

adjectives

What is the name for a type of language that is produced by the active merging of two or more stable languages into a new complete language that is taught as a first language in a culture? Question 1 options: Combinatorial language Creole language Compensatory language Pidgin language

creole language

What is the name of the effect in which the general population has been showing increases in IQ over the last ~100 years? Question 4 options: The IQ Effect The Knowledge-Gain Effect The 20th Century Gain Effect The Flynn Effect

The Flynn Effect