Psychology 1010 Final Exam | 84
Accurate Q’s and A’s
Which term refers to all the mental activities associated with thinking,
knowing, remembering and communicating? - -Cognition
- A prototype is a.. - -Best example of a particular category
- After spending two hours trying to solve an engineering problem, Amira
finally gave up. As she was trying to fall asleep that night, a solution to the
problem popped into her head. Amira's experience best illustrates - -Insight
- The confirmation bias refers to the tendency to - -Search for information
that supports our preconceptions
- Overconfidence refers to the tendency to - -Underestimate the extent to
which our beliefs and judgements are wrong
- A $100 coat marked down from $150 can seem like a better deal than the
same coat priced regularly at $100. This best illustrates the importance of - -
Framing
- The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas is called - -Creativity
- The most creative scientists are those who - -Are intrinsically motivated to
solve problems
- Language refers to the - -spoken, written, or signed words and the ways
they are combined to communicate meaning
- The ability to produce words is to productive language as the ability to
comprehend speech is to ___ language - -receptive
- At some point during the babbling stage, infants begin to - -Lose their
ability to discriminate sounds they hear
- An impairment of language is known as - -Aphasia
- Experts would most likely agree that intelligence is a - -Mental disability to
learn from experience
- Which of the following is not an aspect of what is commonly called
intelligence? - -Artistic ability
, - Spearman's g factor refers to - -A general intelligence that underlies
successful performance on a wide variety of tasks
- L.L Thurstone believed that there is - -Seven different primary mental
abilities, each of which is a relatively independent element of intelligence
- Howard Gardner identified a total of ____ relatively independent
intelligence - -Nine
- Psychologists use _____ to assess individuals' mental aptitudes and them
with those of others - -Intelligence tests
- Achievement tests are designed to - -Asses learned knowledge or skills
- Binet and Simon designed a test of intellectual abilities in order to - -
Identify children likely to have difficulty learning in regular school classes
- The eugenics movement would have been most likely to encourage - -
Selective breeding of highly intelligent people
- The WAIS was intentionally created by - -David Wechsler
- If a test is standardized, this means that - -A person's test performance can
be compared with that of a representative pretest group
- Fluid intelligence refers most directly to a person's - -Ability to reason
speedily and abstractly
- Motivation is defined by psychologists as - -A need or desire that energizes
and directs behavior toward a goal
- An instinctive behavior is one that is - -Unlearned
- According to drive-reduction theory, a need refers to - -A psychological
state that usually triggers motivational arousal
- For a thirsty person, drinking water serves to reduce a __ - -Drive
- On some college football teams, players are rewarded for outstanding
performance with a gold star on their helmets. This practice best illustrates
the use of - -Incentives
- Two year old Jada is bored. She has been stuck in her car seat for 30
minutes, has played with every toy available to her, and has looked at
everything in the car. She wants desperately to escape. She is motivated to
escape the car seat to ______ - -Increase her arousal to an optimum level
Accurate Q’s and A’s
Which term refers to all the mental activities associated with thinking,
knowing, remembering and communicating? - -Cognition
- A prototype is a.. - -Best example of a particular category
- After spending two hours trying to solve an engineering problem, Amira
finally gave up. As she was trying to fall asleep that night, a solution to the
problem popped into her head. Amira's experience best illustrates - -Insight
- The confirmation bias refers to the tendency to - -Search for information
that supports our preconceptions
- Overconfidence refers to the tendency to - -Underestimate the extent to
which our beliefs and judgements are wrong
- A $100 coat marked down from $150 can seem like a better deal than the
same coat priced regularly at $100. This best illustrates the importance of - -
Framing
- The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas is called - -Creativity
- The most creative scientists are those who - -Are intrinsically motivated to
solve problems
- Language refers to the - -spoken, written, or signed words and the ways
they are combined to communicate meaning
- The ability to produce words is to productive language as the ability to
comprehend speech is to ___ language - -receptive
- At some point during the babbling stage, infants begin to - -Lose their
ability to discriminate sounds they hear
- An impairment of language is known as - -Aphasia
- Experts would most likely agree that intelligence is a - -Mental disability to
learn from experience
- Which of the following is not an aspect of what is commonly called
intelligence? - -Artistic ability
, - Spearman's g factor refers to - -A general intelligence that underlies
successful performance on a wide variety of tasks
- L.L Thurstone believed that there is - -Seven different primary mental
abilities, each of which is a relatively independent element of intelligence
- Howard Gardner identified a total of ____ relatively independent
intelligence - -Nine
- Psychologists use _____ to assess individuals' mental aptitudes and them
with those of others - -Intelligence tests
- Achievement tests are designed to - -Asses learned knowledge or skills
- Binet and Simon designed a test of intellectual abilities in order to - -
Identify children likely to have difficulty learning in regular school classes
- The eugenics movement would have been most likely to encourage - -
Selective breeding of highly intelligent people
- The WAIS was intentionally created by - -David Wechsler
- If a test is standardized, this means that - -A person's test performance can
be compared with that of a representative pretest group
- Fluid intelligence refers most directly to a person's - -Ability to reason
speedily and abstractly
- Motivation is defined by psychologists as - -A need or desire that energizes
and directs behavior toward a goal
- An instinctive behavior is one that is - -Unlearned
- According to drive-reduction theory, a need refers to - -A psychological
state that usually triggers motivational arousal
- For a thirsty person, drinking water serves to reduce a __ - -Drive
- On some college football teams, players are rewarded for outstanding
performance with a gold star on their helmets. This practice best illustrates
the use of - -Incentives
- Two year old Jada is bored. She has been stuck in her car seat for 30
minutes, has played with every toy available to her, and has looked at
everything in the car. She wants desperately to escape. She is motivated to
escape the car seat to ______ - -Increase her arousal to an optimum level
