Exam 8: Language, thinking, and Intelligence

Lillian sees a young,thin woman walking out of a performing arts center dressed in leotards and tights and carrying point-dance shoes.Lillian,relying upon the ____ heuristic,assumes that this woman is a ballerina.

Which of the following is a drawback of the test-retest reliability technique?

Which of the following was not believed by Binet?

Studies have found that supportive social interaction with competent language users appear to be ____ in the development of language.

Today,most intelligence tests,including the Stanford-Binet,no longer compute a ratio intelligence quotient (IQ).What has it been replaced with?

Which perspective emphasizes that while children may have an innate capacity for language,they cannot acquire it until they are immersed within social conversation with adults?

The influence that mental set can have on problem solving was first demonstrated by ____ in his "water-jar" problems study.

What do emotionally intelligent people do when they realize that they are in a bad mood?

A major disadvantage to the problem solving techniques of trial and error and algorithms is that they are ____.

The best feedback that adults can provide to children during their language development is characterized by exaggerated intonations,high pitch,repetition,and slow speech known collectively as ____.

Recent genetic testing of different animal species provides evidence bolstering the ____ theory.

____ are people who have freely come to United States because they perceived it as "the land of opportunity."

By 3 to 5 weeks of age,newborns begin a vocalization pattern known as ____,in which they produce phoneme sounds such as ooooh and aaaah.

____ is the measurement of intelligence,personality,and other mental processes.

Galton believed that society could be improved by encouraging supposedly intellectually superior people to reproduce while preventing those judged inferior to do so.This practice is called ____.

The tendency to make decisions based on how closely an alternative matches a particular prototype is called a(n)____.

Which of the following is a correct observation?

What do Gardner and Thurstone have in common?

The tendency to think of objects as functioning in fixed and unchanging ways and ignoring other less obvious ways in which they might be used is known as ____.

People who grow up in enriched environments tend to score ____ of their reaction range.