Describe the three main limitations of IQ tests.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. IQ tests primarily measure abilities relevant to success in school. They do not measure other important cognitive abilities, such as creativity, artistic ability, or ability to understand social situations.
2. IQ scores are not a fixed capacity but can fluctuate over time.
3. IQ test content was developed for middle-class white children and may be unfamiliar to children from a different background.
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Which of the following represents the concept of sensory adaptation?
A. Martha begins to learn how to read lips as her sense of hearing starts failing. B. Blake no longer notices the smell of cleaner after being in the room for a few minutes. C. Joslin is able to see in her bedroom at night after her eyes adjust to the darkness. D. Juan has trouble with his depth perception when he has to wear an eyepatch after an eye injury.
Selective combination, selective comparison, and selective encoding are all related to
a. algorithmic solutions. b. finding solutions by insight. c. cognitive assimilation. d. convergent thinking.
In an emergency, everyone looks to others, who are looking to them, and thus everyone appears calm so we think it is not an emergency. Latané and Darley call this:
a. coactor continuation b. social facilitation c. social exhaustion d. pluralistic ignorance
For years, Jenna ate one toaster pastry for breakfast. Then the company changed their packaging so that the toaster pastries were wrapped in sets of two. Ever since this change occurred, Jenna has had two pastries for breakfast. This is an example of
A) social facilitation. B) modeling. C) impression management. D) the unit bias.