Exam 8: Language, thinking, and Intelligence

A distribution of scores that clusters around the average test scores,with fewer scores found far from average,describes ____.

Which of the following is a language rooted in an individualist cultural context?

Psychometrics literally means ____.

During childhood,we learn about ____ words per year.

The linguistic relativity hypothesis implies that if language shapes reality,then ____.

Which of the following tests measure intelligence using 11 subtests,6 verbal and 5 performance,that yield a verbal IQ score,a performance IQ score,and an overall IQ score?

What do Howard Gardner and Robert Sternberg have in common?

Scarr and Weinberg concluded that their research suggests that Black-White IQ differences are substantially influenced by ____.

What is one of the major limitations of heritability coefficients?

Craig is a reporter who needs to interview high school students for an article.He decides that the best place to find students to interview on a weekend is at the local mall.The problem solving strategy that Craig used to locate students is called a(n)____.

Which test are you taking when you are given an exam in a course to determine what you have learned?

Who is considered to be the "father" of modern intelligence testing?

Describe and explain the differences among the behaviorist,nativist,and interactionist perspectives of language development.

One prominent theory in the interactionist area is the social interactionist perspective,which is strongly influenced by ____ writings.

The tendency for people's performance on IQ tests to improve from one generation to the next is referred to as the ____.

In assessing these different perspectives on language acquisition,the general consensus is that behaviorists place too much emphasis on ____,while nativists don't give enough credit to ____.

Perhaps we often assume others share our characteristics,habits,and opinions because these self-aspects are readily available in memory.This type of thinking,brought about by the ____ heuristic,can cause us to make misguided decisions.

Who developed the theory of multiple intelligences,which contends that the human brain has evolved separate systems for different adaptive abilities,and what we call "intelligence" in our culture is simply a small cluster of these abilities?

According to Chomsky's linguistic theory,an innate mechanism that facilitates the learning of language is known as the ____.

Very few of the gifted individuals in Terman's study ____.