Question

Nadia believes that typical hippies wear tie-dye and have long hair. When she encounters a person with long hair and tie-dye she thus assumes that they must be a hippie. This tendency to judge events by the extent to which they resemble a typical case is known as ?

an ________________ is an example of a concept that closely matches the defining characteristics of that concept.

Using concepts from Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory, being “street smart” means that one is high in ?

The nature side of the nature vs. nurture debate indicates that intelligence is determined by ?

On the original Stanford-Binet intelligence test, a score of 50 would mean ? On today’s standardized intelligence tests, the mean score is ? According to Sternberg, the three types of intelligent? Logical thought is based on ____________, while creative problem solving uses ___________.

Tasha approaches her long-term goal of finishing her Portfolio Project by breaking it into smaller, more manageable steps. Tasha is using which of the following methods of problem solving?

	A.	means-end analysis
	B.	a heuristic
	C.	trial and error
		D.insight

Answer 1

Generalization is wherein an individual tends to extrapolate certain characteristics and statistics to the entire population

Streets smart means a person who is high on the practicality of dealing with life as opposed to the fluency in theoretical knowledge.

The nature side in the nature v nurture supports the fact that children are inherently smart by virtue of their genes as opposed to upbringing.

It would be moderately impaired.

The mean score of IQ tests currently is 70-80

According to Sternberg logical thought is based in common sense and the latter is based in imagination.

Tasha is employing

A. Means end analysis. It is a technique of problem solving wherein the said goal is thought through, and the best possible approach is employed to attain the given goal.