Exam 8: Language, thinking, and Intelligence

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Stereotype threat has ____ influence on minority students' confidence.

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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?

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

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The existence of savants provides dramatic evidence for ____.

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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 ____.

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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.

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

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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 ____.

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

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

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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.

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

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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 ____.

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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.

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

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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.

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The sending and receiving of information is known as ____.

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

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

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

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