Kayla is playing blackjack and has a hand totalling 17. She knows that she will likely lose if she gets another card but she does so anyway

Acquiring, storing, retrieving, and using information, based on sensation, perception, problem solving, and conceptualizing, is called

cognition

Which of the following would not be considered a concept?

your cat Spike

Individual instances of a concept that are stored in memory based on personal experience are called

exemplars

Which of the following is most likely prototype of a bird?

sparrow

You are trying to decide what kind of breakfast cereal to buy. You notice a new cereal that you recall seeing advertised on television and choose to buy it. This kind of decision making fits best with the concept of the

algorithm

The _____ is a sort of mental short cut that helps us make decisions based on what is easiest to call to mind

availability heuristic

Kayla is playing blackjack and has a hand totalling 17. She knows that she will likely lose if she gets another card but she does so anyway because she has a ‘gut feeling’ she will get a lucky card. On what is Kayla’s decision making based?

intuition

When you use a specific procedure for solving a math problem that will always lead you to the correct answer, providing you correctly follow the steps, you are using a

algorithm

Juanita visits her advisor at college and afterward figures out when she will graduate by counting how many classes she has left and determining how many items it will take to complete them. She is using:

means end analysis

_____ refers to word arrangement, whereas _____ refers to the meaning of words.

Syntax, semantics

How many phonemes are in the word psychology?

8

Intonation and social rules are a part of which component of language?

pragmatics

The language in which you think largely determines the nature of your thoughts. This is called the:

linguistic relativity hypothesis

Thurston believed that seven distinct capabilities are involved in all intellectual activities, which he referred to as

primary mental abilities

We is a con artist who flunked out of school, though he always got along with teachers and students. He is currently unemployed, but runs “scams” to earn his living. He has played a bum, a cop, a priest, and a businessman as part of his efforts to cheat people and he has never been caught. Wes would likely have a high degree of Gardner’s _____ intelligence

interpersonal

Phillip is an 8 year old with a mental age of 6. According to Terman’s formula. what is his IQ?

75