The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View, 2nd Edition (King)

Chapter 8: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language

Multiple Choice Quiz

1
Which of the following scenarios would best be explained by the prototype model of concept structures?
A)determining whether something is a car if it has four wheels
B)determining whether something is a fish if it swims in the water
C)determining whether something is a flower if it is similar to a rose
D)determining whether something is a cat if it can run
2
In comparing a computer to the human brain, the computer's hardware is like _____ and the computer's software is like _____.
A)cognition; the brain
B)the brain; cognition
C)sensation; perception
D)perception; sensation
3
Rose believes that being involved in a plane crash is more likely than being involved in an automobile crash. Which of the following errors has Rose made?
A)confirmation bias
B)hindsight bias
C)fundamental attribution error
D)the availability heuristic
4
Focusing on information that supports your beliefs and discounting information that contradicts your beliefs is called the _____.
A)confirmation bias
B)hindsight bias
C)fundamental attribution error
D)availability heuristic
5
Trying the same technique repeatedly to solve a problem is called
A)subgoaling.
B)heuristics.
C)deductive reasoning.
D)fixation.
6
Which of the following is characteristic of creative thinkers?
A)inner motivation
B)functional fixedness
C)fixation
D)availability heuristic
7
In order to develop _____ for a test, the test should be given to a large, representative group of people of various ages, races, sexes, and geographic locations.
A)validity
B)reliability
C)norms
D)mental age
8
If an adult is 20 years old and her mental age is 30, what is her IQ?
A)50
B)67
C)100
D)150
9
If an intelligence test asks questions that would more likely be familiar to a person living in a city than to a person living in the country, the test is
A)reliable.
B)valid.
C)culturally biased.
D)unstandardized.
10
A person diagnosed as mentally retarded as a child is able to function within society as an adult. What type of mental retardation does this person likely have?
A)organic retardation
B)pervasive mental retardation
C)extensive mental retardation
D)cultural-familiar retardation
11
What type of intelligence would likely be strongest for an architect who designs skyscrapers?
A)verbal
B)naturalistic
C)bodily-kinesthetic
D)spatial
12
According to Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence, what type of intelligence would be needed to calculate a mathematical problem?
A)practical
B)mathematical
C)creative
D)analytical
13
Consider the word driving. The d sound is known as a _____, while the suffix -ing is known as a _____.
A)morpheme; phoneme
B)phoneme; morpheme
C)semantic; syntax
D)syntax; semantic
14
Which of the following statements is supported by the theories of Benjamin Whorf?
A)Intelligence is multifaceted and people have different levels of each type of intelligence.
B)The more words an individual has to describe an object or event, the easier it will be for him or her to think about it.
C)Standardized intelligence tests tend to be culturally biased.
D)Individuals determine whether an object is part of a category by comparing it to an object typical of that category.
15
The sentence, "The tablecloth asked her dog to type the dishes," contains
A)correct syntax but incorrect semantics.
B)correct semantics but incorrect syntax.
C)morphemes but not phonemes.
D)phonemes but not morphemes.
16
Noam Chomsky's assertion that humans are designed for language acquisition is supported by which of the following?
A)All humans speak.
B)Language rules are similar from culture to culture.
C)Children from different cultures develop language at about the same age and in the same order.
D)Parents from all cultures speak to their infants.
17
A college student and a billionaire both lose a $100 bill. The student is stressed by this event, but the billionaire is not. These two individuals are in the _____ stage of the stress and coping process.
A)primary appraisal
B)secondary appraisal
C)emotion-focused coping
D)problem-focused coping
18
Most adults in the United States have a vocabulary of roughly _____ words.
A)10,000
B)50,000
C)100,000
D)500,000
19
By late adolescence, the heritability of intelligence is about
A)25%.
B)50%.
C)75%.
D)100%.
20
Gifted people have an IQ of _____ or higher.
A)110
B)120
C)130
D)140
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