Psychology
Question: Eidetic imagery is _____________________?
- 1. a step in mathematical thought
- 2. a clear visual memory
- 3. most prominent among elderly persons
- 4. highly correlated with general intelligence
Question: According to Guilford, divergent thinking requires ___________________?
- 1. one solution
- 2. arithmetic reasoning
- 3. fluency of ideas
- 4. categorization
Question: Impaired language comprehension following a stroke would most probably be diagnosed as ________________?
- 1. dyslexia
- 2. aphagia
- 3. Wernicke’s
- 4. Broca’s aphasia
Question: Musa is attractive and assertive. He arrives at work on time each day, and never complains. When his coworkers are asked to assess Musa’s intelligence, they consistently rate him much higher than his scores on intelligence test. This is an example of ____
- 1. the mere exposure effect
- 2. the halo effect
- 3. the placebo effect
- 4. the fundamental attribution
Question: The groupthink process is not characterized by ____________________?
- 1. inhuman solution
- 2. critical thinking
- 3. restricted discussion
- 4. group cohesiveness
Question: The Measurement of Adult Intelligence” was written by _________________?
- 1. Binet
- 2. Skinner
- 3. Guilford
- 4. Wechsler
Question: The performance of which of the following activities is least likely to be facilitated by the presence of an audience?
- 1. running
- 2. adding numbers
- 3. taking a final examination
- 4. memorizing a script
Question: For Noam Chomsky, the semantic interpretation of a sentence comes from ________________?
- 1. surface structure
- 2. deep structure
- 3. divergent thinking
- 4. transformational rules
Question: A personal selection test that requires previous knowledge and mastery of a given body of materials, in effect is __________________?
- 1. an aptitude test
- 2. an achievement test
- 3. an intelligence test
- 4. a test of creativity
Question: Who hypothesized a general “g” factor to intelligence?
- 1. Robert Sternberg
- 2. David Wechsler
- 3. Louis Thurstone
- 4. Charles Spearman