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Chapter 9

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1)

A concept is

 
 
 
 

2)

The most systematic procedure for solving a problems is a(n)

 
 
 
 

3)

A major obstacle to problem solving is fixation, which is a(n)

 
 
 
 

4)

You notice that your new next-door neighbor is very neatly dresses, wears glasses, and is reading a Greek play. Given a choice between her being a librarian and a store clerk, you incorrectly guess that she is a librarin. You were probably led astray by

 
 
 
 

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After the 9/11 attacks by foreign-born terrorists, some observers initially assumed that the 2003 East Coast black out was probably also the work of foreign-born terrorists. This assumption illustrates

 
 
 
 

6)

When consumers respond more positively to ground beef described as "75 percent lean" than to the same product labeled "25 percent fat," they have been influenced by

 
 
 
 

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Children reach the one-word stage of speech development at about

 
 
 
 

8)

Skinner's view that we learn language the same way we learn other behaviors - through association, imitation, and reinforcement - is most helpful in explaining

 
 
 
 

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According to Chomsky, children are born with a rediness to learn the grammatical rules of language, and all they need to acquire language is

 
 
 
 

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Our language influences the way we perceive and think about the world. This idea, adapted from Whorf's hypothesis, helps explain why

 
 
 
 

11)

Of the examples discussed in this section, the problem-solving behavior that most closely resembled insight was

 
 
 
 

12)

Most researchers agree that apes can

 
 
 
 

13)

The existence of savant syndrome - limited mental ability combined with an exceptional specific skill - seems to support

 
 
 
 

14)

Stremberg's three aspects of intelligence are

 
 
 
 

15)

Emotionally intelligent people tend to

 
 
 
 

16)

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a creative person?

 
 
 
 

17)

Intelligence quotient, or IQ, was originally defined as mental age divided by chronological age and multiplied by 100. By this definition, the IQ of a 6-year-old with a measured mental age of 9 would be

 
 
 
 

18)

The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) yields an overall intelligence score as well as seperate verbal and performance (nonverbal) scores. The WAIS is best able to tell us

 
 
 
 

19)

The Stanford-Binet, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children are known to have very high reliability (about +.9). This means that

 
 
 
 

20)

The strongest support for heredity's influence on intelligence is the finding that

 
 
 
 

21)

To say that the heritability of intelligence is about 50 percent means that 50 percent of

 
 
 
 

22)

The environmental influence that has the clearest, most profound effect on intellectual development is

 
 
 
 


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