Intelligence Review

The higher the birth parents' IQ scores, the lower the child's score is likely to be.

• True

• False

______________ is a unit of meaning that is made up of concepts and expresses a single idea.

• Prototype

• Concept

• Proposition

• Schema

"All apples that I've seen are red. Therefore, all apples are red: is an example of ________________ reasoning.

• Inductive

• Deductive

• Rational

• Irrational

According to Associated Content the odds of your dying in a 1 hour flight are less than 1 in 1,000,000, yet I am deathly afraid of flying. What bias explains this reaction?

• inductive reasoning

• availability heuristic

• deductive reasoning

• reflective thinking

You accidentally call your neighbor "Dad" one day. This would be an error attributed to:

• unconscious processes

• cognitive schema

• subconscious processes

• mindlessness

An integrated mental network of knowledge, beliefs, and expectations concerning a particular topic or aspect of the world.

• mental image

• cognitive schema

• proposition

• concept

Being able to drive a car and sing with the radio can be attributed to:

• subconscious processes

• cognitive schema

• propositions

• mental images

Jean Piaget proposed that the domains of intelligence can be expanded to include musical aptitude, kinesthetic intelligence, and the capacity for insight into oneself, others, or the natural world.

• True

• False

In the theory of cognitive dissonance, tension that occurs when you believe you have made a bad decision is known as:

• confirmation bias

• information bias

• postdecision dissonance

• justification of effort

The study of cognitive processes in animals is called:

• cognitive ethology

• linguistic anthropology

• psychodynamic approach

• thought processes