Psychology Week 7

Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology that focuses on the study of ________.

Which of the following is an example of a prototype for the concept of leadership on an athletic team?

Which of the following is an example of an artificial concept?

An event schema is also known as a cognitive ________.

________provides general principles for organizing words into meaningful sentences.

________are the smallest unit of language that carry meaning.

The meaning of words and phrases is determined by applying the rules of ________.

________ is (are) the basic sound units of a spoken language.

A specific formula for solving a problem is called________ .

A mental shortcut in the form of a general problem-solving framework is called________ .

Which type of bias involves becoming fixated on a single trait of a problem?

Which type of bias involves relying on a false stereotype to make a decision?

Fluid intelligence is characterized by ________.

Which of the following is not one of Gardner's Multiple Intelligences?

Which theorist put forth the triarchic theory of intelligence?

When you are examining data to look for trends, which type of intelligence are you using most?

In order for a test to be normed and standardized it must be tested on ________.

The mean score for a person with an average IQ is________.

Who developed the IQ test most widely used today?

Where does high intelligence come from?

Arthur Jensen believed that ________.

What is a learning disability?

Which of the following statements is true?

Sensations and information are received by our brains, filtered through emotions and memories, and processed to become ______________________ .

Anywhere between 30-70% of individuals with diagnosed cases of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) also have some sort of ______________________ .

Natural concepts are mental groupings created naturally through our ______________________ .

Which of the following is key to generating a bell curve?

What is the Flynn effect?

The analytical intelligence component of the triarchic theory of intelligenceis demonstrated by the ability to ______________________ .

Illnesses such as diabetes and stomach cancer kill more than twice the number of Americans than murder or car accidents. However, Zale sees car accidents as more dangerous because he often hears about car accident fatalities on the nightly news, and he doesn't know anyone with diabetes or stomach cancer. Therefore, Zale takes more precautions against car accidents.This exemplifies ______________________ .

Which of the following is an example of an abstract, complex concept?

Schemata are a(an) ______________________ .

Parents of African American students filed a case against the state of California in 1979 because they believed the testing method used to identify students with learning disabilities ______________________ .

Scientists who study cognition are searching for ways to understand how we ______________________ , organize, and utilize our conscious cognitive experiences without being aware of all of the unconscious work that our brains are doing.

A(an) ______________________ is a mental construct consisting of a cluster or collection of related concepts.

______________________ encompasses the processes associated with perception, knowledge, problem solving, judgment, language, and memory.

A ______________________ is the smallest unit of language that conveys some type of meaning.

Which term refers to the process by which we derive meaning from morphemes and words?

At approximately what age to children start to form concepts and expectations about the world including racial differences?

One study of pre-school children in Canada asked children to rate specific attributes. What did the study reveal?

Which of the following statements best summarizes Shankar Vedantam's conclusions about the formation of judgments and biases.

One of Vedantam's conclusions is that:

Which brain imaging technique did researchers use to examine the brains of 7-month-old children?

The researchers found that a greater degree of language ability was evident for one-year old children who had which of the following?

The following is a common criticism of intelligence testing

According to the article (2003), despite some of the difficulties in translating the results of this test into practice, it remains the most widely used instrument for measuring intelligence in children.

The goal of The Rainbow Project, led by Robert Sternberg, was to enhance prediction of college success in order to achieve what goal?

Critics of intelligence testing often fail to consider that: