Exam 7: Cognition and Mental Abilities

Giftedness appears to be caused by early environmental stimulation of the occipital lobes of the cortex.

Discuss IQ tests in terms of their uses, how successful they are, and current criticisms of them.

In recent years, the difference in intelligence scores between Blacks and Whites has ________.

Numerous studies indicate that animals ________.

All animals communicate.

Reliability refers to the dependability and consistency of the scores yielded by a given test.

Identical twins studies have provided final proof that intelligence is completely inherited.

IQ tests reliably predict school performance.

In comparing Asian and American attitudes toward academic performance, ________ believe that studying hard, rather than innate ability, is most important.

Researchers who taught a gorilla named Koko to use sign language found that through age 5 her vocabulary was ________ the spoken vocabulary of a human 5-year-old and was ________ than the vocabulary of a deaf 5-year-old child using sign language.

Clayton is looking for a house to buy. As he looks at different houses, he weighs the different features that each house offers. For instance, while he prefers a brick house, he saw a wooden house that had a better floor plan, a reasonable price, and was in a good school district. Clayton decides that the wooden house is a better buy despite not being made of brick. His decision-making style involved the use of a ________.

Some people with intellectual disabilities exhibit remarkable abilities in highly specialized areas such as numerical computation, art, or music. These abilities are known as ________ performance.

Little can be done to improve the behavioral and mental skills of children who have intellectual disabilities.

How effectively people perceive and understand their own feelings and the feelings of others, and can regulate and manage their own feeling-related behaviors is ________ intelligence.

"John will study hard for his next exam." "For his next test, John will prepare very studiously." "John will devote all his studying to the next exam." These three sentences all exhibit the same ________.

The mirror test with animals has been used primarily to test for ________.

In general, research has shown that multitasking often ________.

A decision-making model in which the decision is made by comparatively weighing several factors is a compensatory model.

The tendency to perceive and approach problems in certain ways is called ________.

Discuss the development of individual intelligence tests for children. In your discussion, be sure to cover key concepts such as IQ and mental age and name the persons responsible for developing these concepts.