Exam 8: Thinking, Language and Intelligence

Babies typically generate their first words at around

Most proposed designs for the Vietnam War Memorial involved statues of soldiers.The winning design was a low black wall inscribed with the names of the dead.The architect who submitted the winning design is clearly very high in Sternberg's intelligence.

You've just met Johanna, and find that she is outgoing, funny, and great at telling stories and jokes.If you were relying on the representativeness heuristic to guess what Johanna does for a living, you would be more likely to guess that she is a because you are .

Recent MRI studies have found that different kinds of intelligence

Their 5-year-old nephew asks Hallel and Hamdi what an aardvark looks like.Hallel finds a picture in a children's book about animals and shows it to him.Hamdi finds a description in the encyclopedia and uses it to describe an aardvark.Hallel's approach is similar to using an) ; Hamdi's approach is similar to using an) .

The fact that children can take a form of communication that lacks a consistent grammar and turn it into one that has consistent rules illustrates that

Sharda and Onyedikachi are participating in a psychology study.Sharda's task is to press a button as rapidly as possible whenever she sees a circle on the computer screen.Onyedikachi's task is to press a red button if he sees a circle and a green button if he sees a square, also as rapidly as possible.Sharda's study is measuring reaction time, and Onyedikachi's study is measuring reaction time.

Fatima received an overall score of 132 on an IQ scale.This number means that her score was higher than percent of the population.