Exam 8: Language, thinking, and Intelligence

How do we form concepts?

Compared to their less gifted peers,gifted children are ____ likely to be social misfits.

The ease with which we generally recall our own characteristics and opinions from memory helps explain why we tend to believe that other people share our views and preferences to a greater extent than is actually true.What is this effect known as?

Who proposed that humans are born with specialized brain structures or neural prewiring that facilitate the learning of language?

A problem-solving strategy which involves following a specific rule or step-by-step procedure until you inevitably produce the correct solution is known as ____.

"Making a habit of questioning tradition" is one of the six steps recommended in the text for increasing your ____.

Genetic research suggests that roughly 200,000 years ago,mutations in the ____ gene may have caused changes in the brains of archaic Homo sapiens,providing them with much finer control over their mouth and throat muscles.

The text defines intelligence as the mental abilities necessary to ____.

A test that measures what it is designed to measure is considered ____.

Research indicates that people who watch a lot of violence on television tend to perceive the world around them as a meaner and more dangerous place than do people who watch little violence on television.This tendency is best explained by the ____.

Today's most widely used set of intelligence tests is the ____.

What occurs between an infant's fourth and sixth month of life?

There is a ____ correlation between brain size and intelligence scores.

In every culture throughout the world,language development begins with children using primitive-sounding ____.

A problem-solving strategy that involves following a general rule of thumb to reduce the number of solutions is known as ____.

The Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT)measures ____.

Which of the following stages occurs at the age of 2?

The ____ appears to be responsible for the comprehension of speech.

What is emotional intelligence?

What is enrichment?