Exam 7: Cognition and Mental Abilities

Syntax is the system of rules that governs how we combine words to form grammatical sentences.

The Remote Associates Test asks subjects to ________.

Research on giving vitamin supplements to young children has found that these supplements ________.

Problem representation is ________.

Ivan is a consultant who has been asked to solve a technical problem for an electronics firm. When he arrives at the firm, he finds that the problem is exactly like a problem he has solved before. The first time he solved the problem it took him 37 hours. This time it takes him 26 hours. The most likely reason for his faster solution this time is ________.

The Christensen-Guilford Test is a test of ________.

Phonemes can be grouped together to form prefixes and suffixes, but not words.

Charles Spearman believed that ________.

Americans are more likely than Asians to believe that studying hard, rather than innate ability, is crucial to successful academic performance.

The process insuring that disabled students are more likely to socialize with nondisabled peers in school is called ________.

The two main components of grammar are ________.

Summarize the research on the effectiveness of intervention programs aimed at improving the academic performance of children.

Researchers have found that ________ influenced by culture.

The process whereby we acquire and apply information is known as ________.

The linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests that ________.

Margo can't close the window in her office, and a strong wind has come up. She complains to John that her papers are blowing and she can't find a paperweight. John takes the empty heavy coffee mug from her bookshelf and puts it on top of her papers to anchor them. Margo has been suffering from ________.

The phenomenon in which among the population as a whole, IQ scores have been steadily increasing over several decades is known as the ________.

The Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test is an example of a culture-fair test.

In a recent study that required men and women to respond to gender-neutral and gender- specific pronouns, ________ responded more quickly to stimuli that contained traditional gender stereotypes than to stimuli that contained nontraditional stereotypes.

There is a rule in the English language that adjectives come before nouns. This rule is an example of ________.