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Describe compensatory models. Also, discuss the role of representativeness, availability, and the confirmation bias in decision making. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of each technique in your discussion.

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Ruby received a score of 90 on an intelligence test. Two days later she received a score of 55 on a different form of the same test. The test was apparently lacking in ________.


A) validity
B) reliability
C) culture-fairness
D) content-relations

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Failing to see that a wrench can also be used to hammer a nail is an example of ________.


A) functional fixedness
B) reproductive thinking
C) positive transfer
D) learned helplessness

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The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale was introduced by ________.


A) Theodor Binet
B) L. M. Terman
C) Morris Stanford
D) David Wechsler

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Most concepts are simple and clear cut.

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When test results are in agreement with some other direct and independent measure of that which the test is designed to predict, the test exhibits ________.


A) alternate-form reliability
B) criterion-related validity
C) content validity
D) test-retest reliability

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The basic sound units of any language are called ________.


A) phonemes
B) semantics
C) morphemes
D) sound bytes

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Which of the following situations exemplifies a proper mode of administration or use of an intelligence test?


A) Individual administration of the WISC-IV to a graduate school applicant.
B) Individualized administration of the WAIS-IV to an adult college applicant.
C) Group administration of the WAIS-IV to graduate school applicants.
D) Group administration of the Sequin Form Board to test for mental retardation.

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Summarize research findings on language and cognition in animals.

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Research on heredity and socioeconomic status has found that heredity has ________.


A) no bearing on IQ in either impoverished families or affluent families
B) no bearing on IQ in affluent families, but has an impact on impoverished families
C) a strong bearing on IQ in both impoverished and affluent families
D) little or no bearing on IQ in impoverished families, but has an impact in affluent families

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John is taking his English Literature final on Friday, and he is trying to find strategies to cope with the problem of organizing the material. Which of the following is the best advice you could give him?


A) list all of the attributes of a good grade
B) adopt a policy of functional fixedness
C) visualize and diagram the material as much as possible
D) work at the highest pitched emotional level as possible

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By age 5, human children have a vocabulary of between ________ words.


A) 100 and 500
B) 500 and 900
C) 1,000 and 5,000
D) 5,000 and 10,000

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How effectively people perceive and understand their own feelings and the feelings of others, and can regulate and manage their own feeling-related behaviors is ________ intelligence.


A) maturational
B) empathic
C) emotional
D) emotive

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About seventy percent of the population has IQ scores between ________.


A) 25 and 175
B) 65 and 135
C) 45 and 155
D) 85 and 115

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The three most important building blocks of thought are ________.


A) language, images, and concepts
B) cognitions, feelings, and language
C) concepts, algorithms, and heuristics
D) semantics, phonemes, and morphemes

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Cliff is a manager of a restaurant. He refuses to hire elderly people to help out in the restaurant because he believes they are too senile to do the work properly. He is so convinced of this that he refuses to even look at the resumes of elderly individuals who come in to apply for work. Cliff's discriminatory behavior is an example of ________.


A) the availability heuristic
B) compensatory decision modeling
C) hill-climbing
D) the representativeness heuristic

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A mental model containing the most typical features of a concept is called a(n) ________.


A) prototype
B) compensatory model
C) stereotype
D) algorithm

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A special kind of problem solving in which we already know all the possible solutions or choices is ________.


A) divergent thinking
B) convergent thinking
C) functional thinking
D) decision making

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Before Jane enrolled in a college course on introductory psychology, she thought the study of psychology was the study of how unconscious needs and desires affect our actions. Now that she is almost halfway through the course and she has studied the same areas your text has covered, ________.


A) her image of psychology has changed
B) she no longer thinks about psychology abstractly
C) her concept of psychology has changed
D) her concept of psychology is not currently modifiable

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Thurstone's definition of intelligence includes ________.


A) fluid general ability
B) operations, contents, and products
C) s factors
D) seven distinct mental abilities

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