Chapter 7 - Cognition and Intelligence

Question 1

Male or female: Which is better at handling spatial reasoning and complex math problems

Answer 1

Male

Question 2

created the Intelligence Triarchy, which includes Analytical, Practical, and Creative intelligence

Answer 2

Sternberg

Question 3

Are males better at math than females?

Answer 3

No

Question 4

In the 1930’s a new focus on observable behaviors led to the rise of this field of psych

Answer 4

Behaviorism

Question 5

Binet believed that low scores on the IQ test were due to…

Answer 5

lack of study and self-discipline, low attention span

Question 6

Mental activity associated with coming to a decision, reaching a solution, or forming a belief

Answer 6

Thinking

Question 7

Judging people or objects in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, a particular prototype

Answer 7

Representativeness Heuristic

Question 8

Studying mental processes in an empirical fashion, which required new methods and frameworks, began during this movement

Answer 8

1950’s cognitive revolution

Question 9

Mental representations of thing we believe belong together based on their characteristics

Answer 9

Concepts

Question 10

developed a test for children in the Paris School System

Answer 10

Binet

Question 11

Created the 7 Clusters of Abilities

Answer 11

Thurstone

Question 12

ability to handle new situations

Answer 12

Creative Intelligence

Question 13

Barrier to problem solving where we search for evidence that fit’s one’s beliefs and ignore evidence that does not fit those beliefs

Answer 13

Confirmation bias

Question 14

Male or female: Which is better at spelling, locating objects, and detecting emotions?

Answer 14

Females

Question 15

adapted Binet’s test for American children and named it the Stanford-Binet test

Answer 15

Terman

Question 16

ability to adjust skills to fit different environments

Answer 16

Practical Intelligence

Question 17

The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use our knowledge to adapt to new situations

Answer 17

Intelligence

Question 18

Male or female: Which is more verbally fluent and more sensitive to touch, taste, and color

Answer 18

Females

Question 19

Barrier to problem solving where there is resistance toward using familiar objects in new ways

Answer 19

Functional fixedness

Question 20

We often judge the truth/frequency of events/objects/facts based on how easy they are to imagine or how quickly they “spring to mind”

Answer 20

Availability Heuristic

Question 21

proposed 8 intelligences

Answer 21

Gardner

Question 22

People make choice based on how information is presented to them, not just the info itself

Answer 22

Framing and Anchoring Effect

Question 23

4 approaches to problem solving

Answer 23

Trial and error, algorithms, heuristics, and insight

Question 24

Two things that early psychologists studied related to cognition

Answer 24

Introspection and personal conscious activities

Question 25

Terman believed that low scores on the IQ test were due to…

Answer 25

eugenics (you should remove your genes from the population)

Question 26

proposed that we all have some amount of general intelligence (g)

Answer 26

Spearman

Question 27

the study of how we process, organize, understand, and communicate information to others

Answer 27

Cognitive Psychology

Question 28

IQ formula

Answer 28

mental age / chronological age X 100

Question 29

the variety of approaches that can be used to achieve a goal

Answer 29

Problem Solving

Question 30

Barrier to problem solving where there is a tendency to fall back on strategies one has always used - even if they don’t work so well

Answer 30

Mental set

Question 31

The mental activity associated with obtaining, converting, and using knowledge

Answer 31

Cognition

Question 32

the ideal or most representative example of a natural concept

Answer 32

Prototype

Question 33

feeling that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype

Answer 33

Stereotype threat

Question 34

capacity to solve problems

Answer 34

Analytical Intelligence