Exam 8: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Piper is taking an intelligence test that provides a single score,while Taylor is taking a test that has separate scores for four different categories of questions.Piper's test is the ________,and Taylor's is the ________.

Howard Gardner identified a total of ________ relatively independent intelligences.

Introductory psychology students facing a midterm exam one week later spent five minutes each day visualizing themselves scanning the posted grade list,seeing their A grade,and feeling proud.This ________ simulation had ________ effect on their exam scores.

To avoid teacher bias,France's minister of public education gave ________ the task of designing fair tests.

Professor Pegler's research efforts focus on how the use of heuristics influences the way people assess financial risks.Which specialty area does his research best represent?

Prompt feedback regarding your performance on psychology practice tests is most likely to inhibit

An unwillingness to give up our beliefs even when the evidence proves us wrong is called

A cross-sectional study is one in which

If a road test for a driver's license adequately samples the tasks a driver routinely faces,the test is said to have

Gardner's concept of bodily-kinesthetic intelligence is most likely to be criticized for

The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas is called

People who err on the side of overconfidence are especially likely to

Research participants were asked to identify a word that would form a compound word or phrase with each of three other words.Solutions that occurred with sudden insight were accompanied by a burst of activity in the brain's ________ lobe.

Wernicke's area is a region of the brain involved in

Imagining many different and unusual ways to prepare delicious meals on a limited budget best illustrates

The best evidence that there is a critical period for learning language is the fact that

After Paul's snow-skiing accident,doctors detected brain damage to his Wernicke's area.Because of the damage,Paul is most likely to experience difficulty in

Convergent thinking involves

Males' mental ability scores show greater ________ than females' mental ability scores.

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