Week 06 · Thinking, Intelligence & Decision-Making

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10 mixed-purpose questions: core knowledge, application, research/evidence, data interpretation, and ethics/context. Mastery is 80% or higher.

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Form A

Week 6 Knowledge Check

1. Which statement best captures Week 6 Day 1 — Concepts, Categories & Problem Solving? Heuristics reduce cognitive effort and often work well, especially in familiar environments. Good reasoning does not require having no prior beliefs. Intelligence tests provide information about performance on defined cognitive tasks under standardized conditions. Categories make thinking efficient, but a useful category is not a perfect boundary.

2. Which statement best captures Week 6 Day 2 — Heuristics, Probability & Judgment? Heuristics reduce cognitive effort and often work well, especially in familiar environments. Good reasoning does not require having no prior beliefs. Intelligence tests provide information about performance on defined cognitive tasks under standardized conditions. Better thinking does not mean never being wrong.

3. Which statement best captures Week 6 Day 3 — Confirmation Bias, Framing & Decision-Making? Intelligence tests provide information about performance on defined cognitive tasks under standardized conditions. Good reasoning does not require having no prior beliefs. Better thinking does not mean never being wrong. Categories make thinking efficient, but a useful category is not a perfect boundary.

4. Which statement best captures Week 6 Day 4 — Intelligence & Psychological Measurement? Better thinking does not mean never being wrong. Categories make thinking efficient, but a useful category is not a perfect boundary. Intelligence tests provide information about performance on defined cognitive tasks under standardized conditions. Heuristics reduce cognitive effort and often work well, especially in familiar environments.

5. Which statement best captures Week 6 Day 5 — Metacognition, Calibration & the Critical Thinking Lab? Categories make thinking efficient, but a useful category is not a perfect boundary. Heuristics reduce cognitive effort and often work well, especially in familiar environments. Good reasoning does not require having no prior beliefs. Better thinking does not mean never being wrong.

6. A student makes a broad claim about Thinking, Intelligence & Decision-Making. What is the strongest next step? Define the claim and measure, examine evidence, test an alternative explanation, state a limitation, then calibrate the conclusion. Accept the claim if it is familiar. Replace measurement with a personal impression. Treat one observation as proof about every individual.

7. Which interpretation rule is most important when applying Week 6 findings? A group average determines each person's outcome. Respect the boundary: shortcut ≠ stupidity. A psychological measure is identical to the construct itself. One plausible explanation eliminates all alternatives.

8. What is the most defensible purpose of the Week 6 research/data lab? Produce a diagnosis from classroom data. Guarantee that one condition caused every observed difference. Decision-Making Under Different Frames: compare gain-frame and loss-frame conditions, identify variables and assignment procedures, interpret choice percentages, state a justified conclusion, and identify one ethical concern in real-world use. Remove uncertainty by ignoring limitations.

9. A fictional Week 6 comparison reports 71% in Condition A and 82% in Condition B. Which conclusion is strongest? Condition B is proven best for every person. The larger percentage proves the measured construct was perfectly valid. The difference can be called causal without knowing the design. The displayed conditions differ (71% vs. 82%), but the table alone does not establish why the difference occurred or how broadly it generalizes.

10. Which Week 6 application best preserves the course's ethics and person-level inference boundary? Use fictional, public, non-sensitive, or course-supplied examples; keep conclusions proportional to evidence and never infer a person's identity or diagnosis from a classroom activity. Ask students to disclose private health histories for a grade. Use one class activity to label a person's personality or mental health. Treat scientific explanation as permission to excuse harmful behavior.

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Form B · Parallel Retake

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1. Which interpretation is most consistent with the Day 1 evidence on Concepts, Categories & Problem Solving? Categories make thinking efficient, but a useful category is not a perfect boundary. Heuristics reduce cognitive effort and often work well, especially in familiar environments. Good reasoning does not require having no prior beliefs. Intelligence tests provide information about performance on defined cognitive tasks under standardized conditions.

2. Which interpretation is most consistent with the Day 2 evidence on Heuristics, Probability & Judgment? Good reasoning does not require having no prior beliefs. Heuristics reduce cognitive effort and often work well, especially in familiar environments. Intelligence tests provide information about performance on defined cognitive tasks under standardized conditions. Better thinking does not mean never being wrong.

3. Which interpretation is most consistent with the Day 3 evidence on Confirmation Bias, Framing & Decision-Making? Intelligence tests provide information about performance on defined cognitive tasks under standardized conditions. Better thinking does not mean never being wrong. Good reasoning does not require having no prior beliefs. Categories make thinking efficient, but a useful category is not a perfect boundary.

4. Which interpretation is most consistent with the Day 4 evidence on Intelligence & Psychological Measurement? Better thinking does not mean never being wrong. Categories make thinking efficient, but a useful category is not a perfect boundary. Heuristics reduce cognitive effort and often work well, especially in familiar environments. Intelligence tests provide information about performance on defined cognitive tasks under standardized conditions.

5. Which interpretation is most consistent with the Day 5 evidence on Metacognition, Calibration & the Critical Thinking Lab? Better thinking does not mean never being wrong. Categories make thinking efficient, but a useful category is not a perfect boundary. Heuristics reduce cognitive effort and often work well, especially in familiar environments. Good reasoning does not require having no prior beliefs.

6. Which response best audits an overconfident claim about Thinking, Intelligence & Decision-Making? Accept the claim if it is familiar. Define the claim and measure, examine evidence, test an alternative explanation, state a limitation, then calibrate the conclusion. Replace measurement with a personal impression. Treat one observation as proof about every individual.

7. Which interpretation rule is most important when applying Week 6 findings? A group average determines each person's outcome. A psychological measure is identical to the construct itself. Respect the boundary: shortcut ≠ stupidity. One plausible explanation eliminates all alternatives.

8. What is the most defensible purpose of the Week 6 research/data lab? Produce a diagnosis from classroom data. Guarantee that one condition caused every observed difference. Remove uncertainty by ignoring limitations. Decision-Making Under Different Frames: compare gain-frame and loss-frame conditions, identify variables and assignment procedures, interpret choice percentages, state a justified conclusion, and identify one ethical concern in real-world use.

9. A fictional Week 6 comparison reports 71% in Condition A and 82% in Condition B. Which conclusion is strongest? The displayed conditions differ (71% vs. 82%), but the table alone does not establish why the difference occurred or how broadly it generalizes. Condition B is proven best for every person. The larger percentage proves the measured construct was perfectly valid. The difference can be called causal without knowing the design.

10. Which Week 6 application best preserves the course's ethics and person-level inference boundary? Ask students to disclose private health histories for a grade. Use fictional, public, non-sensitive, or course-supplied examples; keep conclusions proportional to evidence and never infer a person's identity or diagnosis from a classroom activity. Use one class activity to label a person's personality or mental health. Treat scientific explanation as permission to excuse harmful behavior.

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