Chapter 7: Thinking and Intelligence Quiz

________ concepts are ones that we know by a specific set of characteristics.

• Natural
• Artificial
• Ideal
• Prototypical

A(an) ________ is a basic sound unit of a given language.

• syllable
• phoneme
• morpheme
• syntactic unit

Who developed the triarchic theory of intelligence?

• Charles Spearman
• Robert Sternberg
• Raymond Cattell
• Howard Gardner

Anwar is hiking in the woods and he gets lost. He spends several days trying to find his way back to his basecamp, but he has the knowledge to gather wood, start a fire, and keep himself warm at night. He is also able to identify local berries and mushrooms growing that he can eat without being poisoned. Anwar is demonstrating ________ intelligence from the triarchic theory.

• analytic
• practical
• functional
• fluid

________ encompasses the processes associated with perception, knowledge, problem solving, judgment, language, and memory.

• Personality
• Cognition
• Conceptualization
• Priming

What is the confirmation bias?

• believing the event you just experienced was predictable
• focusing on information that confirms your existing beliefs
• focusing only on one piece of information when making a decision
• stereotyping someone or something unintentionally

Knowing what a rainbow looks like because you have seen a rainbow is an example of a(n) ________ concept.

• modular
• natural
• prototypical
• artificial

Knowing what a dinosaur is because you looked through a book with pictures of dinosaurs and watched the film Jurassic Park is an example of a natural concept that was developed through ________ experience

• direct
• indirect
• practical
• theoretical

Which term refers to the vocabulary of a language, or the words contained within that language?

• grammar
• lexicon
• morpheme
• phoneme

What impact did Genie’s early isolation have on her ability to acquire language? She never developed a(n) ________.

• ability to communicate
• mastery of the grammatical aspects of language
• lexicon
• ability to speak