Exam 9: Cognition and Intelligence

There are several different types of reasoning,including practical,theoretical,deductive,and inductive reasoning.

Which of the following cognitive skills has not been found to contribute to high IQ scores

__________ refers to the necessity of rapid speech production.For example,if you are having a heated exchange with an enemy and they come up with a brilliant insult,the only way to "win" the debate is to come up with a better retort as fast as possible.Sometimes the need to come up with such a retort too quickly causes us to freeze up and produce no good response at all.

Which of the following is one of the aspects of intelligence according to the theory of psychologist Robert Sternberg?

Approximately every ___ years,the average IQ scores in the human population rise 9-15 points.

Which of the following activities would be of topic of interest to a researcher in cognitive psychology?

Have you ever been distracted while you were speaking and accidentally switched the sounds of two words? For example,a person might mean to say "I'm going to get a turkey sandwich," and instead say "I'm going to get a surkey tandwich." This type of expressive inversion is called a __________.

When your attention is drawn to an external event of some sort,this is referred to as stimulus- driven capture.

The mental image or typical example that exhibits all the features associated with a concept is called a prototype.

Plasticity refers to the ability of the brain to grow and change.

In the movie Rain Man,the character played by Dustin Hoffman had an incredible memory,to the point where he could count cards in Las Vegas,read and remember every name in a telephone book,and recall nearly every event from his entire life.Though he was primarily diagnosed as suffering from autistic disorder,what other diagnostic label would be appropriate for this character?

__________ is a rare disorder that occasionally accompanies autism in which a person of below-average intelligence has an extraordinary ability.

The best time for a person to learn a second language is when they first enter school,on average around the age of 4,because that is when the brain is fully developed and most ready to learn.

The basic theory of a _________ distribution is that scores are clustered,or centered,around a central value,and scores are tracked on a bell-shaped curve.

Regarding the relative influences on intelligence,which combatant in the nature vs.nurture debate is ultimately the winner?

The __________ Intelligence Scale was the result of Lewis Terman publishing an adaptation of Alfred Binet's intelligence test in the United States of America.

The __________ theory suggests that concrete words are mentally represented both visually and verbally,whereas abstract concepts are only represented verbally.This might explain why abstract concepts are more difficult to retrieve at some future point.

Which researcher was the first to develop an intelligence test that could help assess the cognitive skills of adults?

Which of the following individuals would be considered a prodigy?

Computers have a component called RAM,which stands for Random Access Memory.The more complex a particular program is,the more RAM that program uses.In the same way,the greater the _________ of a task is,the less efficiently and effectively a person will be able to process that task without allocating a greater amount of attention to it.