Exam 7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Louis Thurstone's primary mental abilities contain the types of items measured on the most widely used intelligence tests today.

Nathan is teaching his son about dogs. He points to a dog in the neighborhood while saying the word "dog." In this scenario, Nathan is using _____ of the dog concept.

Dana has the ability to easily cope with unexpected and challenging situations. She generates solutions to problems by relating unexpected situations to familiar situations. In this scenario, Dana is exhibiting _____.

Identify a true statement about the heritability of intelligence.

An intelligence quotient (IQ) is independent of his or her chronological age (CA).

In the context of the nativist approach to language development, the _____ prepares the nervous system to learn grammar.

The communication systems of the birds and the bees have high semanticity.

_____ is the application of regular grammatical rules for forming inflections to irregular verbs and nouns.

A criticism of the linguistic-relativity hypothesis is that a language's vocabulary suggests the cognitive limits of the speakers of the language.

In language development, over inclusion of instances in a category is labeled overregularization.

Which of the following statements is true of problem solving?

__________includes problem-solving skills such as encoding information, combining and comparing bits of information, and generating a solution.

Identify a criticism about the linguistic-relativity hypothesis.

__________enables people to deal with other people, including difficult people, and to meet the demands of their environment.

In psycholinguistic theory, the__________is a neural "prewiring" that facilitates a child's learning of grammar.

__________is a heuristic device in which we try to solve a problem by evaluating the difference between the current situation and the goal.

In the context of problem solving, _____ involves handling one element of the problem at a time.

Vinvac Inc. was established three years ago. Kevin and Raj, co-owners of Vinvac Inc., had set a five-year goal for the company when they established it. Presently, they are assessing the difference between the company's current situation and the goals they had set so that they can work toward minimizing the difference. In this scenario, Kevin and Raj are using a technique called _____.

__________is the degree to which the variations in a trait from one person to another can be attributed to, or explained by, genetic factors.

In the context of language development, which of the following statements is true of learning theory?