Psychology Chapter 7 Exam Review

To acquire knowledge of a task without awareness or intention is referred to as...

Insight and intuition probably involve which 2 stages of mental processing?

Defined as a statistical estimate of the proportion of total variance in attributable traits

These serve as mental models of aspects of the world...

Behavioral-genetic studies have shown...

Tendency to solve problems using strategies that worked in the past on similar problems

State of tension that occurs when a person holds 2 cognitions that are inconsistent

Ability to identify your own and other people's emotions accurately...

Process in which opposing facts or ideas are weighed and compared...

Formal problems solved with ___; informal problems call for ___

A general ability assumed to underlie specific mental abilities and talents...

Tendency to overestimate one's ability to have predicted an event after the outcome is known

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

What is an intelligence quotient?

Tacit knowledge refers to....

A quasi-reflective thinker would be likely to...

In order to arrive at a verdict, jurors should...

Rule of thumb that suggests a course of action guiding problem solving- but not optimal...

Knowledge and awareness of one's own cognitive processes...

These simplify and summarize information about the world so that it is manageable...

Occurs outside of conscious awareness but is/are accessible to consciousness when necessary...

In the triarchic theory, these aspects refer to how well you transfer skills to new situations

In the triarchic theory, these aspects refer the practical application of intelligence

Tendency to increase liking for something that you've worked had for or suffered to get...

The Wechsler Adult Intelligene Scale (WAIS) was to produce a...

Tendency to look for or pay attention only to information that confirms one's beliefs

When Kohler put chimps in situation in which tempting bananas were out of reach, he found that-

Tension that occurs when you believe you've made a bad decision

Deductive reasoning involves...

Intelligence is....

The 1st widely used intelligence test...

Tendency to judge the probability of an event depends on how easy it is to think of examples

If a child does well in math, American parents are more likely than Asian parents to believe...

Assumes there are many types of intelligence and emphasizes strategies people use...

Tendency to falsely attribute human qualities to nonhuman animals...

The information-processing strategies used when thinking intelligently about a problem...

A representation that may occur in many sensory modalities & that resembles what it represents

Problem solving strategy that is guaranteed to produce a solution

The study of cognitive processes in nonhuman beings is referred to as...

A seemingly likely conclusion follows from certain propositions/premises, BUT it could be false

When we may act, speak, & make decisions out of habit without analyzing what/why we are doing

When we need to decide whether something belongs to a ___, we are likely to compare it to a___

Tendency to mistakenly think that humans have nothing in common with other animals...

For most Mexicans, which of the following is a prototype of the concept "dog"?

Environmental aspects that hinder intelligence include...