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The concept of "producer" can mean a person that produces goods or services for sale or a person who supervises and finances the making and public presentation of a play, film, or program. Producer is a(n) |
| | A) | disjunctive concept. |
| | B) | conjunctive concept. |
| | C) | heuristic concept. |
| | D) | basic concept. |
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Of the following, which is the superordinate concept? |
| | A) | vegetables |
| | B) | cauliflower |
| | C) | broccoli |
| | D) | cruciferous vegetables |
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Of the following, which is considered a basic concept? |
| | A) | sports cars |
| | B) | vehicles |
| | C) | cars |
| | D) | Volvo |
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Which of the following is an example of a prototypical toy? |
| | A) | hoola-hoop |
| | B) | truck |
| | C) | Silly String |
| | D) | Jack-in-the-Box |
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When problem solving, what is the first step? |
| | A) | Recognizing and eliminating any mental sets. |
| | B) | Organizing all the elements of the problem. |
| | C) | Carefully defining the problem. |
| | D) | Choosing a specific problem-solving strategy. |
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You studied for your first psychology exam by reading your notes over and over again and earned a C on your exam. You wanted a B. When preparing for your second exam, you studied by reading your notes over and over again and earned a C on the exam. Your inability to approach the problem in a new way is called |
| | A) | a confirmation bias. |
| | B) | a heuristic. |
| | C) | the trial and error method. |
| | D) | a mental set. |
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Regarding human experts, which of the following is true? |
| | A) | Compared to the average person, experts have better memories. |
| | B) | Experts have a high level of awareness of their errors and promptly correct them. |
| | C) | Compared to the average person, experts can analyze problems more rapidly. |
| | D) | Experts excel in many areas. |
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Which activity requires divergent thinking? |
| | A) | dividing 564 by 4 |
| | B) | measuring the square feet in your living room |
| | C) | composing a song |
| | D) | memorizing the divisions of the human nervous system |
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A morpheme is |
| | A) | the smallest unit of sound in a language. |
| | B) | a language rule. |
| | C) | an alphabetic letter in a language. |
| | D) | the smallest unit of meaning in a language. |
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Which statement would support the idea that intelligence is a general ability? |
| | A) | On average, impoverished environments produce lower IQ scores. |
| | B) | If elderly individuals continue to engage in mentally challenging tasks, they experience fewer cognitive deficits. |
| | C) | Individuals who excel in mathematics tend to also excel in reading. |
| | D) | In brain-injured patients, the abilities that are impacted tend to remain specific to the area of the injury. |
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Which researcher does not support the idea of multiple intelligences? |
| | A) | Charles Spearman |
| | B) | Howard Gardner |
| | C) | Robert Sternberg |
| | D) | J. P. Guilford |
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According to Sternberg, which cognitive step results in better reasoning when performed slowly and carefully? |
| | A) | mapping |
| | B) | application |
| | C) | inference |
| | D) | encoding |
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On measures of intelligence, a reliable test is one that |
| | A) | measures intelligence. |
| | B) | predicts performance on other tasks requiring intelligence. |
| | C) | was developed using a normative sample. |
| | D) | produces approximately the same scores when administered on different occasions by different examiners. |
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Which skill might be measured in a tacit intelligence test? |
| | A) | writing a grammatically correct letter |
| | B) | defining a list of words |
| | C) | shopping within a specified budget |
| | D) | solving a geometry problem |
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What evidence did Herrnstein and Murray use to argue that society is headed toward "genetic decline?" |
| | A) | Increased rates of fetal alcohol syndrome will lead to increasing numbers of children with minimal brain dysfunction. |
| | B) | Decreasing academic standards are creating future generations of incapable thinkers. |
| | C) | People with inferior intelligence have more children than people of higher intelligence. |
| | D) | Intensive neonatal care has lead to increasing numbers of children with borderline IQs. |
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