Exam 8: Language, thinking, and Intelligence

In contrast to Galton's work,the Binet-Simon Test measured general mental ability and emphasized ____ rather than sensory skills.

Between the fourth and sixth months,infants begin ____,in which they spontaneously repeat phoneme combinations like ahh-goo and baa-baa.

Scarr and Weinberg found that the IQs of lower class Black children adopted as infants and raised by middle-class families were ____ the average IQ in the general population.

The field of ____ is the science of designing and making intelligent machines,especially intelligent computer programs.

The current dominant view of language development reflects the ____ approach.

Neuroscientists have shown that the brains of intelligent people ____ than those of the less intelligent.

Individuals who easily master skills in one intellectual area while being of relatively normal ability in other intellectual areas are known as ____.

Reliability estimates for both test-retest and alternate-forms techniques are based on ____.

Cognition is known as ____.

A normal distribution has a(n)____ appearance when the individual scores are placed in a graph.

When one concept in our long-term memory is activated,other closely related concepts are also activated,or ____.

Psychologists have traditionally considered ____ thinking to be a more important ingredient in creativity than ____ thinking.

The rules used in language to combine words into sentences is known as ____.

The process of forming concepts is known as ____.

Aptitude tests are designed to ____,while achievement tests are designed to ____.

According to the text,what is the primary mode of communication among humans?

At about one year of age,most children begin uttering morpheme sounds that can be identified as words.What is this period in language acquisition typically called?

The eight intelligences proposed by Gardner include linguistic,logical-mathematical,spatial,naturalist,musical,interpersonal,intrapersonal,and ____.

According to research findings and the text,our skill at managing the emotional realm ____ the extent to which our lives are successful and fulfilling.

The smallest unit of language that carries meaning is known as a ____.