Exam 8: Language, thinking, and Intelligence

Stereotype threat has ____ influence on minority students' confidence.

Despite having various strategies to solve problems,psychologists have identified a number of cognitive tendencies that act as barriers to problem solving.Which of the following is NOT a common internal obstacle?

Non-native Spanish speakers often have difficulty rolling the "rr" consonant.Why does this most likely occur?

The existence of savants provides dramatic evidence for ____.

The tendency to judge the frequency or probability of an event in terms of how easy it is to think of examples of that event is called the ____.

When children begin calling liquids by their specific names-for example,milk is no longer wawa,but milk-this is an application of the process of ____,which involves the creation of new schemas.

Which of the following refers to the degree to which the items on a test are related to the characteristic the test supposedly measures?

Psychologists and behavior geneticists who study the heritability of intelligence express the degree to which heredity determines intelligence within a particular human group in terms of a ____.

After reviewing all the evidence,psychologists have estimated that heredity accounts for ____ percent of the variation in intelligence,and environment accounts for ____ percent.

In which of the following occupations would it be most important to have spatial intelligence?

Because the ____ could predict performance on a variety of intelligence tests measuring math ability,vocabulary,and general knowledge,Spearman asserted that it was much more important than the specific factors.

The process of establishing uniform procedures for administering a test and interpreting its scores is known as ____.

Although the hypothesis that language determines thought in some sort of lockstep fashion has no empirical support,most psychologists do believe in a weaker version of Whorf's hypothesis,that ____.

When young children use the word doggie for cats and horses,as well as dogs,this is called ____,and is an application of the process of ____ to children's words.

A problem-solving strategy that involves trying one possible solution after another until one works is called ____.

Proponents of the ____ theory believe that language is no older than 50,000 years and is closely tied to the development of tools,imagery,and art.

The sending and receiving of information is known as ____.

Signs with the words "Men Working" and references to "Mankind" are examples of the ____.

The smallest sound significant unit of speech is called a ____.

Spearman concluded that there was a(n)____ -factor underlying all mental abilities.