Psych Chapter 7 Final Exam Practice

A six year old child with a mental age of 6 would have an IQ of

100

The fact that we hear about airplane crashes on the 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 a(n) _____.

availability heuristic

_____ are mental categories used to group objects, events, and characteristics

concepts

According to Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence, ____ intelligence predominantly involves the ability to design, invent, originate, and imagine

creative

Heuristics differ from algorithms in that heuristics:

do not guarantee an answer

Every week during football season, Fred and his friends have fun following the local high school teams. Before the games, Fred never really talks too much about how the games will turn out. On Monday, however, it is a different scenario altogether. Fred is more than happy to share with his friends that the games came out exactly as he thought they would and why. Fred seems to be demonstrating _____.

hindsight bias

Cognitive psychology is the study of

mental processes

If an intelligence test produces the same score over multiple administrations but it doesn't accurately measure intelligence, then the test is _____ but not _____.

reliable;valid

You have to cook dinner for 30 people on Saturday. Your apartment is a mess and you have nothing to wear. You decide to do your laundry Thursday night, buy the groceries on Friday, clean the apartment Saturday morning, and cook the dinner Saturday evening. Preparing for the dinner party in this way is an example of

subgoaling

According to Gardner's multiple intelligences, which of the following types of vocations would most likely require interpersonal intelligence?

teachers