Exam 8: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

As he attempted to spell the word receive,Tim reminded himself "i before e except after c." Tim's self-reminder best illustrates the use of

Five ingredients of creativity were identified by ________ and his colleagues.

Youths' intelligence test scores have been found to predict their______ decades later.

In contrast to our explicit conscious reasoning,our seemingly effortless and automatic feelings or thoughts are called

The similarity between intelligence scores of fraternal twins raised together is

If a test is standardized,this means that

The intelligence test scores of today's better-fed population ________ the scores of the 1930s population.

A high school counselor gave Amy a test designed to predict whether she could learn to become a successful architect.Amy most likely took a(n)________ test.

Miguel is a published philosopher.He regularly spends time in a monastery to ponder large questions about life,death,and human existence.According to Gardner,Miguel is demonstrating ________ intelligence.

To a child,"You follow me" and "Me follow you" communicate different ideas.A chimpanzee well trained in sign language might use the same sequence of signs for both phrases because it is incapable of

Environments that maximize creativity are likely to be those that foster

When retested on the WAIS,people's second scores generally match their first scores quite closely.This indicates that the test has a high degree of

In the English language,adjectives are typically placed before nouns,as in "green car." This illustrates an English language rule of

Sweden and Iceland exhibit little of the gender gap in mathematical abilities found in Turkey and Korea.This best illustrates that these abilities are

Those who score above average on tests of mathematical aptitude are also likely to score above average on tests of verbal aptitude.According to Spearman,this best illustrates the importance of

Binet and Simon designed a test of intellectual abilities in order to

Telegraphic speech is most closely associated with the ________ stage of language development.

Which of the following observations provides the BEST evidence that intelligence test scores are influenced by environmental factors?

Block design puzzles are used in one of the subtests of the

According to Robert Sternberg's ________ theory,there are ________ intelligences.