Psych 101 Ch6 quiz

Einstein would be considered to be ________ in ________.

high; fluid intelligence

What scores on a modern intelligence test are considered to be in the "normal" range?

90-110

_______ are clusters of knowledge that provide general conceptual frameworks regarding certain topics, events, and situations.

Schemas

An example of ________ is a person who is expected to do poorly by his/her teacher, and then actually does poorly.

a self-fulfilling prophecy

Charles Spearman believed that intelligence is composed of

a single entity called general intelligence

According to Sternberg, Picasso would score as high in ________ intelligence.

creative

The purpose of the Binet-Simon approach was to

determine which children needed remedial help.

The brain region believed to be associated with "hunches," "intuition," and the emotional component of thinking is located in the

frontal lobes just above the eyes.

After the outcome is known, people often have distorted thinking about their original expectations due to

hindsight bias.

The term ________ refers to the ratio of mental age divided by chronological age multiplied by 100.

intelligence quotient