Question 1

Coleman is 30 years old. When he was 15 years old, he took an intelligence test and was told that his IQ score was 110. If Coleman retakes the intelligence test now, he would likely discover that his current IQ score ​

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A)  is close to 220, double his previous score.
B)  is close to 55, one half his previous score.
C)  is similar to his previous score of 110.
D)  has little relation to his early score because IQ scores tend to lack reliability.E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 2

The _____ effect occurs when solutions emerge for a problem after a period of not consciously thinking about the problem.

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A)  incubation
B)  analytical
C)  sleeper
D)  reprocessingE) B) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 3

Reba has an uncanny ability to discern and respond appropriately to the moods, temperaments, motivations, and desires of other people. According to Gardner, Reba has a high level of _____ intelligence.

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A)  socioemotional
B)  interpersonal
C)  linguistic
D)  parapsychoticE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 4

The Binet-Simon scale of intelligence expressed a child's score in terms of ​

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A)  mental age.
B)  a potential score.
C)  a percentile score.
D)  an intelligence quotient.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 5

Following the death of their parents ten years ago, identical twins Glenda and Brenda were placed in an understaffed orphanage. Brenda remained in the orphanage, while Glenda was adopted by a loving middle-class couple. Which of the following would be LEAST likely to occur? ​

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A)  Glenda will have a higher IQ than Brenda.
B)  Glenda and Brenda will have the same reaction range for intelligence.
C)  Brenda will have an IQ near the upper limit of her reaction range.
D)  Glenda and Brenda will have different IQs.E) C) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 6

People often find it difficult to solve a problem by using a familiar object in a novel way because of ​

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A)  a mental set.
B)  unnecessary constraints.
C)  irrelevant information.
D)  functional fixedness.E) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 7

Roland is an architect who can design dream homes based on vague ideas and images that his clients bring to him. According to Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, Roland is likely to score high in which of the following?

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A)  Intrapersonal intelligence
B)  Interpersonal intelligence
C)  Spatial intelligence
D)  Logical-mathematical intelligenceE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 8

People often assume that it is necessary to use all the numerical information provided in a problem in order to solve the problem. In reality, numerical information sometimes makes it more difficult to solve a problem because the information ​

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A)  results in a mental set.
B)  puts unnecessary constraints on the problem solver.
C)  may be irrelevant.
D)  encourages functional fixedness.E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 9

You are having a conversation with your psychology professor and he proposes that people have an inborn predisposition to develop language. Which of the following theorists would MOST likely agree with his assertions?

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A)  David Premack
B)  B. F. Skinner
C)  Steven Pinker
D)  Noam ChomskyE) C) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 10

Which of the following classes of problems involves discovering the relations among the parts of the problem?

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A)  Transformation
B)  Probability
C)  Inducing structure
D)  ArrangementE) B) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 11

Dr. Sciorro believes that because the majority of children acquire language without any effort, there must be a biological mechanism that facilitates language learning. Dr. Sciorro's views of language development MOST closely mirror those of

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A)  Noam Chomsky.
B)  Herbert Simon.
C)  B. F. Skinner.
D)  Benjamin Whorf.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 12

Imagine that anthropologists found a culture that had over 80 different words for rice. If researchers also found that the people in this culture thought about rice in different and more elaborate ways than people who have only one word for rice, it would

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A)  provide evidence that the linguistic relativity hypothesis is incorrect.
B)  support social communication theory.
C)  support the linguistic relativity hypothesis.
D)  provide evidence that the social communication theory is incorrect.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 13

According to Sternberg, a person who has the ability to deal effectively with the kinds of problems people encounter in everyday life is demonstrating the _____ type of intelligence.

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Question 14

The consensus among most researchers is that the heritability of intelligence is

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A)  close to 100%.
B)  approximately 80%.
C)  around 50%.
D)  less than 40%.E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 15

The correlation between social class and intelligence is ​

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A)  positive.
B)  negative.
C)  inverse.
D)  zero.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 16

Most explanations for the Flynn effect revolve around ​

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A)  genetic influences on IQ.
B)  group differences in basic intelligence.
C)  changes in testing procedures.
D)  a variety of environmental factors.E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

Question 17

According to Howard Gardner, IQ tests have generally emphasized which of the following?

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A)  Spatial and linguistic skills
B)  Verbal and mathematical skills
C)  Analytical and practical skills
D)  Academic and interpersonal skillsE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 18

The tendency to perceive an item only in terms of its most common use is known as _____.

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Question 19

What steps would you go through to find the best Chinese restaurant in your new town?

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Question 20

In The Bell Curve , Herrnstein and Murray imply all of the following EXCEPT ​

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A)  cultural differences in average intelligence are substantial.
B)  intelligence is influenced by genetic inheritance.
C)  cultural differences in average intelligence cannot be easily reduced.
D)  the heritability of intelligence is very low.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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