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The fact that people can group pretzels, potato chips, and popcorn into "snack foods" is an example of the ability to form . |
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The process of manipulating information to form concepts, solve problems, reason, or make decisions is . |
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An attempt to identify an appropriate way to attain a goal when the goal is not readily attainable is . |
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Strategies that guarantee solutions to problems are . |
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The situation in which individuals fail to solve problems because they focus on an object's usual uses is experiencing . |
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A person who persists in using a prior strategy and fails to examine a problem from a new perspective is experiencing a . |
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A clinical psychologist who examines a client's general complaints and reaches a diagnosis of major depressive disorder has used reasoning. |
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When compiling information for a class project, a business major interested in a career in computer sales reads articles about successful people in the field, but ignores articles about declining computer sales. This behavior is an example of bias. |
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The consistent, stable ways that distinguish people from each other are . |
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An individual's level of mental development relative to others is the individual's . |
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A symmetrical, bell-shaped distribution with the majority of cases falling in the middle of the potential range of scores and a few scores at the extremes is said to be . |
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The extent to which a test yields a consistent, reproducible measure of performance is . |
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A test that produces scores that can be used to predict performance in another setting has high validity. |
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The statistical procedure used to identify test items or measures that are correlated is . |
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The theory of intelligence that individuals have both general intelligence and a number of specific abilities is - theory. |
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