AP Psychology Cognition and Intelligence

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Our mental image that best represents a category is called a...

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Prototype

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Which type of creative thinking expands the number of possible problem solutions?

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Divergent Thinking

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What is our tendency to think we know or can perform better or more accurately than we really can?

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Overconfidence

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A chess-playing computer program that routinely calculates all possible outcomes of all possible game moves best illustrates problem solving by means of

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an algorithm.

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In trying to solve a potentially complicated problem quickly, we are most likely to rely on

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heuristics.

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When designing an experiment, one way to avoid bias is to make sure all people in the sample to be studied have an equal opportunity to be placed in the experimental group.

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random assignment

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stereotypes

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representative heuristics

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The extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest is called __________________________.

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content validity.

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A self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype is called (an) ___________.

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stereotype threat.

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Fred and Eric are identical twins. Which is likely true about their intelligence?

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Their intelligence test scores are closely matched.