Exam 7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Identify a true statement about problem solving.

_____ is the capacity to communicate information about events and objects in another time or place.

__________is the quality of language that permits one to communicate information about objects and events in another time and place.

Barbara wanted to know whether Americans bought more American-made cars or more foreign-made cars. She arrived at a conclusion based on the cars her American friends drove. In this scenario, Barbara used _____ to come to a conclusion.

It takes children longer to learn new words than it takes apes to learn new signs.

__________is the quality of language in which words are used as symbols for objects, events, or ideas.

__________is the ability to generate novel and useful solutions to problems.

According to the representativeness heuristic, people make judgments about events according to:

Which of the following statements is true of concepts?

__________are mental categories used to group together objects, relations, events, abstractions, or qualities that have common properties.

A(n) _____ is a system of symbols along with rules that are used to manipulate the symbols.

A(n) _____ is a systematic procedure for solving a problem that works invariably when it is correctly applied.

The anchoring and adjustment heuristic is a decision-making heuristic in which:

According to the linguistic-relativity hypothesis, language does not affect the way we perceive the world.

When a child utters the word "mama," it may signify meanings as varied as "There goes Mama," "Come here, Mama," and "You are my Mama." Such single words used by children to express complex meanings are known as _____.

During a math test, Jacob is given the lengths of two sides of a right triangle and is asked to find the length of its third side. He uses the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the length. In this scenario, Jacob has used a(n) _____ to calculate the length of the third side of the right triangle.

Christopher is skilled at problem solving and possesses broad reasoning abilities. According to Charles Spearman, Christopher's abilities are indicative of _____.

Jane is a ten-year-old girl with a mental age (MA) of twelve. Jane's intelligence quotient (IQ) calculated using Wilhelm Stern's formula is _____.

A(n) _____ is a concept of a category of objects or events that serves as a good example of the category.

Susan, an astronomer, studies the nature of stars and has contributed significantly to the understanding of the laws that govern their behavior. In this scenario, Susan is exhibiting _____.