Exam 8: Language, thinking, and Intelligence

Which of the following is a possible explanation for why Japanese children outscore American children academically?

Which language development perspective contends that both environmental and biological factors play a role in affecting the course of language development?

The degree to which test results predict other observable behavior related to what the test supposedly measures is referred to as the ____ of a test.

Whenever she wants to go outside,Anne,a two-year-old child says "want outside" instead of saying "I want to go outside." Which phase of language development is discussed in this example?

The reliability of a test refers to the degree to which the ____.

Which of the following provides a possible explanation for how genes and environment interact in determining intelligence?

In using the availability heuristic,which is the most important factor for people?

The heritability coefficient ranges from ____.

According to Whorf's linguistic relativity hypothesis ____.

The theory of language evolution that contends that human language is more a product of sudden cultural evolution is called ____.

Due to the influence of ____,until about 1960 most psychologists assumed that the development of language ability in children was simply a learned response.

Which theory contends that human language is the product of a very long period of biological evolution,spanning millions of years?

Binet reasoned that general mental ability can be calculated by comparing children's ____ with their chronological age.

All psychological tests are measurement instruments that must have three basic characteristics.What are they?

Sometimes SAT scores are reported as percentiles.What do percentiles tell you?

Why does the early babbling of children from different cultures sound the same?

What has been the result of intelligence researchers attempts at constructing "culture-free" intelligence tests?

When scientists set out to find evidence to support their hypotheses,they need to be careful about falling prey to which problem-solving obstacle?

Peter likes to work on challenging mind puzzles and he enjoys critically analyzing various topics.Psychologists would describe Peter as being ____.

In study after study,researchers have found that people who are more similar genetically are also more similar in terms of their IQ scores.These research findings seem to strongly support the genetic contribution to intelligence.Why are some researchers still skeptical that genes have a larger influence on intelligence than environment?