Exam 7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

In 1904, British psychologist Charles Spearman suggested that the behaviors we consider intelligent have a common underlying factor called__________, which includes broad reasoning and problem-solving abilities.

A(n)__________is a single word used by children to express complex meanings.

Which of the following statements is true of prelinguistic vocalizations?

The _____ groups test questions into a number of separate subtests where each subtest measures a different intellectual task.

Tiffany asks her son to reorganize groups of letters such as "skosc," "odg," "imal," and "orod" into words. In this scenario, Tiffany is using _____ of the words socks, dog, mail, and door.

Which of the following statements is true of language?

Ryan is telling his grandchildren stories about growing up in another country. He describes his school and memories about his childhood friends. In this scenario, Ryan's ability to communicate his experiences about different times and places illustrates the quality of language known as _____.

In the context of problem solving, _____ involves dealing simultaneously with two or more elements of the problems.

The MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study found that__________were more similar than fraternal twins in spatial memory, ability to categorize things, and word comprehension.

Which of the following statements is true of communication by nonhumans?

Pointing to a cat and saying, "This is not a dog" is a(n)__________of the dog concept.

_____ refers to conscious, planned attempts to make sense of and change the world.

Patricia, a three-year-old girl, is having dinner. She looks at her father and says, "I eated food." In this scenario, Patricia is exhibiting _____.

In the context of the Wechsler scales, nontechnically oriented college students often attain higher performance than verbal intelligence quotients (IQs).

In the context of creativity and intelligence, creative problem solving demands convergent rather than divergent thinking.

The _____ is the view that language structures the way we view the world.

According to__________, language acquisition involves the interaction of environmental influences and the inborn tendency to acquire language.

Which of the following statements is true of thinking?

In the context of the theories of intelligence,__________resembles two of Howard Gardner's "intelligences"-intrapersonal skills and interpersonal skills.

The__________is a decision-making heuristic in which people make judgments about samples according to the populations they appear to depict.