Exam 8: Language, thinking, and Intelligence

To adequately challenge gifted students in school,educators have developed two separate intervention strategies.Which of the following strategies involve early admission to school and encouraging gifted students to skip grades?

The diagnosis of mental retardation is given to people who not only have an IQ score below ____ but also have difficulty adapting to the routine demands of independent living.

According to Sternberg's classification,"street smarts" is another name for people who are high in ____.

The "greater neuron" explanation for higher intelligence among people with bigger brains is disputed by the fact that even though men have about 16 percent more neurons than women,they ____.

You are an African-American student,fully aware of the negative cultural stereotypes about your race's intellectual abilities.You feel extra pressure while taking the SAT because you realize that if you fail to perform well,you might confirm these negative stereotypes.You are experiencing what psychologists call ____.

What causes Down syndrome?

The extent to which environmental factors can raise or lower IQ scores,given genetically determined limits is known as one's ____.

Which of the following compares how a person's intelligence test score deviates from the average score of her or his same-age peers,which is 100?

The predictive validity of intelligence tests is ____.

A mental grouping of objects,ideas,or events that share common properties is called a ____.

Which three of Gardner's intelligences are most highly valued in Western culture?

Computers are based on ____,and that is the reason they are inflexible in their functioning.

Linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf's ____ proposed that the structure of language determines the structure of thought.

The SAT does an average job of predicting whether students will actually succeed or fail in college.The correlation of SAT scores with college grades is ____.

Which of the following observations regarding behaviorism's language theory is incorrect?

The original intelligence quotient (IQ)of mental age divided by chronological age did not accurately measure adult intelligence for what reason?

Which of the following is a possible ninth intelligence,recently suggested by Gardner?

A difference between individualists and collectivists in their language style is that ____.

The genetic defect caused by an extra chromosome coming from either the mother's egg or the father's sperm is associated with ____.

Which of the following appears to be involved when we use the grammatical rules of a language in both producing and comprehending sentences?