Thinking and Intelligence-PSYC-101

A road map and a photograph have some of the physical characteristics of objects. Therefore, they are                 of the external world around us.

Dr. Brown conducts research on how concepts are represented in people’s minds. He believes that each category has one perfect representation of a concept. Based on this, Dr. Brown most likely follows the                model of organizing ideas and objects.

exemplar

Cognitive schemas allow for easy, fast processing of information about people, events, or groups that are related in some way. However, when we make generalizations about these people, events, or groups, we are using:

Your friend says the new restaurant in town has the best hamburgers. To decide whether she is correct, you read a variety of online restaurant reviews. You are using                  reasoning to determine whether this conclusion is valid.

Niya did well on her midterm psychology exam. She decides that in order to do well on her upcoming final, she needs to wear the same outfit that she did for the midterm and also use the same pencil. This type of superstitious behavior reflects which cognitive bias?availability heuristic

confirmation bias

When Marcus chooses which candy bar to purchase, he uses             , and when he is trying to figure out how to get the candy bar back to his dorm without it melting, he is using                .

When you meet Renee, she tells you that she loves math and building computers and robots. You decide that Renee must be an engineering student and not a liberal arts student, even though there are more liberal arts students than engineering students in your school. In making your decision, you have just used:

Terry is making a multilayer wedding cake. While trying to make sure it does not collapse, he remembers a bridge he saw that had an interesting support system. He applies that support system to the cake structure to make sure the cake does not collapse. Terry               to solve his problem.

Bob is baking a cake but realizes that he is missing some ingredients. He has to make the cake, so he finds a new recipe that will work with the ingredients he has. Bob is engaging in:

You are studying for your exam, when the power goes out. In order to have enough light to read your textbook, you put your cell phone in front of the page and use the light from the screen to read the book. You are able to successfully study for your exam because you avoid:

working backward

The idea that a single factor contributes to performance on all intellectual tasks is know as the                intelligence theory.

crystallized