Psychology 10: Introduction to Psychology

Professor Halford Fairchild

Quiz for Chapter 7: Cognitive Psychology (October 10, 2006)

Your Name: ______________________

1. Thinking is defined as the manipulation of

a. Concepts

b. Heuristics

c. Mental models

d. Propositions

e. None of the above

2. Jarrod is in this bedroom when the power fails and the lights go off. He can’t see a thing, but he is still able to walk confidently through his apartment to get a flashlight. Jarrod used a(n) ______ to find his way.

a. Hypothesis

b. Heuristic

c. Algorithm

d. Theory

e. None of the above

3. Because Dr. Sand is convinced that Ahmed has appendicitis, he pays more attention to test results that indicate appendicitis than to test results that don’t support is original belief. Dr. Sand is displaying

a. Functional fixedness

b. A mental model

c. stupidity

d. the availability heuristic

e. none of the above

4. The earliest IQ test was developed to:

a. Help the armed forces make appropriate assignments of recruits

b. Identify which immigrants were mentally defective and thus should not be allowed into the United States

c. Help employers decide which employees were most appropriate for the available jobs

d. Determine who could vote in the Jim Crow South

e. None of the above

5. “All monsters are ugly. The Creature from the Black Lagoon is a monster. Therefore, the Creature is ugly.” Together, these three statements are an example of

a. A premise

b. A proposition

c. A natural concept

d. A theory

e. None of the above

6. Jonah just took an IQ test. According to the scoring method used today, his IQ score will reflect

a. his mental age divided by his chronological age, times 100

b. his chronological age divided by his mental age, times 100

c. how quickly he completed the test

d. his raw score, adjusted for how long he has lived in his present culture

e. none of the above

7. Correlating people’s job success with their pre-employment test scores is one way of measuring a test’s

a. Reliability

b. Standardization

c. Norms

d. Length

e. None of the above

8. Correlating people’s original test score with a re-test is one way of measuring a test’s

a. Validity

b. Standardization

c. Norms

d. Length

e. None of the above

9. Rowena is mildly mentally retarded. This means that she

a. Probably has a specific genetic defect

b. Is quicker than others to remember information, but then forgets it more rapidly

c. Has no potential for employment

d. Has an IQ score below 20

e. None of the above

10. Without lifting your pencil or pen from the paper, draw three or four straight lines through the nine bubbles.

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