Exam 7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Identify a true statement about heuristics:

In language development, over-inclusion of instances in a category is labeled overregularization.

Which of the following statements is true of problem solving?

Which of the following statements is true of prelinguistic vocalizations?

Identify a true statement about prelinguistic vocalizations.

A(n) __________ shows the intellectual level at which a child is functioning.

In the context of the nativist approach to language development, the ________ prepares the nervous system to learn grammar.

Which of the following statements is true of thinking?

__________ is the ability to generate novel and useful solutions to problems.

_________ is defined by the ability to cope with novel situations and generate many possible solutions to problems.

Tiffany asks her son to reorganize groups of letters such as "skosc," "odg," "imal," and "orod" into words. In this scenario, Tiffany is using _________ of the words socks, dog, mail, and door.

Which of the following statements is true of communication by nonhumans?

In __________, the problem solver associates freely to the elements of the problem, allowing "leads" to run a nearly limitless course.

In __________, thought is limited to present facts and the problem solver narrows his or her thinking to find the best solution.

A mental shortcut, or rule of thumb, for solving problems is called a(n) __________.

According to __________, language acquisition involves the interaction of environmental influences and the inborn tendency to acquire language.

__________ is the quality of language that permits one to communicate information about objects and events in another time and place.

Which of the following statements is true of telegraphic speech?

Identify a criticism about the linguistic-relativity hypothesis.

Studies generally suggest that the heritability of intelligence is less than 20%.