Smoking and diet cognitive psychologists are likely

smoking and diet
Cognitive psychologists are likely to study all but which of the following topics?
development across the life span
High consumption of saturated fat is linked to what types of cancer?
prostate and colorectal
Alexander Graham Bell studied the human ear and noticed how sounds were transmitted when a
membrane (the eardrum) vibrated. He applied this knowledge to the development of the telephone,
using a similar process of vibration of a membrane. Which cognitive process did Bell demonstrate?
Analogy
What are the smallest units of meaning in a language?
morphemes
Divergent thinking is
conceiving of new ways of viewing situations and new uses for familiar objects.
Who developed an artificial language based on plastic chips and trained a chimp to communicate with
these chips?
David Premack
Spearman proposed that intelligence is composed of

a general factor he termed "g" and other specific abilities
The rules governing proper use of words, phrases, and sentences to convey meaning are called
grammar
Celia is a juror at a trial. Based on her reading of newspapers, Celia has already decided that the
defendant is guilty. She sticks to her decision even when the defense attorney presents strong
contradicting evidence. Celia is demonstrating
confirmation bias.
Tom's parents have just been told that Tom has dyslexia. What does this mean?
He has impaired ability in reading.
Dr. Fabiano wishes to assess the reliability of an intelligence test he recently developed. Fabiano chooses
the test-retest method of assessing reliability. What will Dr. Fabiano have to do?
Give the test to a group of subjects and the re-administer it to the same subjects after a short time
interval.
When people fail to solve the "box-candle" and "two-string" problems presented in the text, they may be
demonstrating
functional fixedness.
The belief that language affects how we think was first developed by ______, and this idea is presented
in the _____.
Whorf; linguistic relativity hypothesis.
Which cognitive bias best describes our tendency to judge people based on first impressions?
the representativeness heuristic
As cited in the text, many of Albert Einstein's creative insights involved the use of
mental imagery.
In Sternberg's model of intelligence, creative intelligence includes
inventing and designing.
A heuristic is
a mental shortcut for solving a problem.
A deviation IQ is an IQ score based on
the difference of a person's test score from the norms for that person's age group.
Stan does not realize that his stapler can be used as a paper weight. This is an example of ____.
functional fixedness

According to the text, which of the following definitions best describes intelligence?
the capacity to think and reason clearly and to act purposefully and effectively in adapting to the
environment
Your best friend takes and IQ test and tells you that s/he scored "average." Generalizing from the normal
distribution of IQ scores, you know that your friend's score
fell somewhere between 85 and 115.