Essentials Of Understanding Psychology 6Th Canadian Edition By Robert S Feldman – Test Bank

Essentials Of Understanding Psychology 6Th Canadian Edition By Robert S Feldman – Test Bank

Chapter 07

Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

True / False Questions

1. Every sensory modality (hearing, smelling, tasting, seeing, and touching) can produce corresponding mental images.
   TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 07-01 What is thinking?
Topic: 07-02 Concepts: Categorizing the World

2. Each sensory modality is able to produce corresponding mental images.
   TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 07-02 What processes underlie reasoning and decision making?
Topic: 07-02 Concepts: Categorizing the World

3. When people overestimate the probability of a terrorist attack in their own city after watching a news report on terrorism, they are using representativeness heuristic.
   FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 07-02 What processes underlie reasoning and decision making?
Topic: 07-04 Solving Problems

4. Heuristics are very helpful when solving problems. They produce accurate results when applied.
   FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 07-03 How do people approach and solve problems?
Topic: 07-04 Solving Problems

5. If a problem appears to be unique or unusual, most people will spend more time reading the instructions and trying to understand the type of problem they are to solve than if the problem were easily defined.
   TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Apply
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 07-03 How do people approach and solve problems?
Topic: 07-05 Preparation: Understanding and Diagnosing Problems

6. Strong problem solvers understand that it is sometimes necessary to ignore pieces of information in order to simplify the problem.
   TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 07-03 How do people approach and solve problems?
Topic: 07-05 Preparation: Understanding and Diagnosing Problems

7. Trial and error is always an efficient and rapid method of problem solving.
   FALSE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 07-03 How do people approach and solve problems?
Topic: 07-05 Preparation: Understanding and Diagnosing Problems

8. Some problems are solved more easily by working through them backwards.
   TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 07-03 How do people approach and solve problems?
Topic: 07-05 Preparation: Understanding and Diagnosing Problems

9. Leslie has just bought a chair that requires assembly. She lays all the pieces of the chair on the floor and begins to place them together until all the parts have been correctly assembled. Leslie has performed an arrangement problem.
   TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Apply
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 07-03 How do people approach and solve problems?
Topic: 07-06 Judgment: Evaluating the Solutions

10. “I like this idea. After all it was my idea.” These statements reflect the truism that we often believe our ideas are better than they really are.
    TRUE

Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Apply
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 07-03 How do people approach and solve problems?
Topic: 07-08 Creativity and Problem Solving