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Among Americans scoring in the top 1 in 10,000 on the ________ at age 12 or 13,about 4 in 10 have earned doctorates.


A) WAIS
B) Stanford-Binet
C) SAT
D) WISC

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Lenore's kitchen remodeling project ended up costing nearly twice as much as she had anticipated.This best illustrates


A) confirmation bias.
B) the planning fallacy.
C) belief perseverance.
D) the framing effect.

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A test that measures or predicts what it is supposed to is said to have a high degree of


A) validity.
B) standardization.
C) reliability.
D) the g factor.

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Computer programmers who focus on innovation and generating novel ideas rather than simply meeting deadlines and writing standard programs are especially likely to demonstrate


A) emotional intelligence.
B) creative intelligence.
C) practical intelligence.
D) existential intelligence.

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Max is so used to thinking that a tough competitive style of behavior is the best way to impress others that he fails to recognize that the most effective way to impress his girlfriend is with cooperative tenderness.Max's oversight best illustrates


A) a fixation.
B) the framing effect.
C) an algorithm.
D) divergent thinking.

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The inability to solve the matchstick problem may be associated with


A) algorithms.
B) fixation.
C) prototypes.
D) cognition.

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When 200 researchers pooled their data on 126,559 people,all the gene variations analyzed accounted for a very ________ percentage of the differences in educational achievement among individuals in this group.This suggests that there are ________ genes that contribute to intelligence.


A) small;many
B) small;very few
C) large;many
D) large;very few

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Jim,age 55,plays basketball with much younger adults and is concerned that his teammates might consider his age to be a detriment to their game outcome.His concern actually undermines his athletic performance.This best illustrates the impact of


A) a growth mindset.
B) epigenetics.
C) polygenetics.
D) stereotype threat.

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As he attempted to spell the word receive,Tim reminded himself "i before e except after c." Tim's self-reminder best illustrates the use of


A) trial and error.
B) insight.
C) an algorithm.
D) a heuristic.

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After Paul's snow-skiing accident,doctors detected damage to his cerebral cortex in Wernicke's area.Because of the damage,Paul is most likely to experience difficulty in


A) remembering past events.
B) pronouncing words correctly.
C) understanding what others are saying.
D) recognizing familiar faces.

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Pigeons can reliably discriminate pictures of cars from pictures of chairs.This best illustrates their capacity to develop


A) concepts.
B) mental sets.
C) heuristics.
D) algorithms.

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Master chess players can make correct game moves at such speed that their acquired expertise feels like


A) an algorithm.
B) a prototype.
C) extrinsic motivation.
D) intuition.

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Catherine is on a commercial plane to the capital when she notices three Arab passengers also on the plane.She begins to feel uneasy and nervous and fears that a terrorist attack could take place.Catherine has intuitively compared the passengers to those who committed the terrorist attacks on 9/11.This is an example of


A) overconfidence.
B) the representativeness heuristic.
C) belief perseverance.
D) the availability heuristic.

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Babies in an Iranian orphanage suffered delayed intellectual development as a result of


A) polygenetic effects.
B) heritability.
C) a deprived environment.
D) a genetic disorder.

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People are likely to take less time to recognize a woman as a nurse than a man as a nurse because a woman more closely resembles their nurse


A) heuristic.
B) prototype.
C) algorithm.
D) fixation.

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People are very likely to decide to be organ donors when the default option on their renewable drivers' license forms is Yes,but they can choose to drop out.They are much less likely to decide to be organ donors if the default option on their license forms is No,but they can choose to opt in.This best illustrates the effects of


A) framing.
B) overconfidence.
C) confirmation bias.
D) the availability heuristic.

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The belief that intelligence is changeable facilitates


A) predictive validity.
B) polygenetics.
C) the stereotype threat.
D) a growth mindset.

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Achievement tests are designed to


A) measure the desire and potential capacity to successfully meet challenges.
B) assess ability to produce novel ideas.
C) compare an individual's personality with those of highly successful people.
D) assess learned knowledge or skills.

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Kristina,a high school English teacher,is eager to promote creativity in her writing class students.Which of the following reminders is likely to do the most to accomplish her goal?


A) "Your final essay will be evaluated by a well-known author."
B) "Many of the best jobs demand good writing skills."
C) "You can produce interesting insights through your writing."
D) "Admission to the most well-known colleges demands some creative ability."

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Comparing the academic performance of those whose scores are extremely low on intelligence tests with those whose scores are extremely high is an effective way to highlight the tests'


A) standardization.
B) factor analysis.
C) reliability.
D) validity.

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