Exam 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language

Which of the following statements about heredity and intelligence is TRUE?

What number reflects the amount of differences in a population attributable to genetic influences?

An advantage of using a heuristic over an algorithm is ________.

Tim and Jim are identical twins who were raised apart. Ned and Ed are fraternal twins who were raised together. Which pair of twins will have more similar IQ scores, if either?

Which of the following is NOT one of the three areas of intelligence described by Sternberg?

If you look at the professors whom you know, you might chuckle at them. They may be very smart but don't understand the real world. According to Robert Sternberg, they may be lacking a bit of practical intelligence.

________ thinking works well for routine problem solving but may be of little use when a more creative solution is needed.

Geoffrey has a Stanford-Binet IQ score of 60 and deficits in adaptive behavior. He is likely to be considered __________.

The smallest meaningful units in a language are __________.

A test is said to be reliable if ________.

Researchers have found that, despite the number of color names in a language, the basic abilities to perceive color are unchanged. This finding would be troublesome for the theory of ________.

Thurstone's definition of intelligence includes __________.

A psychologist asks people to envision a circle. Next he asks them to draw the circle they envisioned. When comparing the pictures, almost all circles look identical. The fact that a circle typically fits a specific and rigid set of rules is an example of a

Cognitive universalism tends to ____________ the linguistic relativity hypothesis.

Like most characteristics of a population, WAIS-IV scores are distributed in a bell or normal curve. Which of the following is an accurate characteristic of those types of curves?

Psychological tests that yield relatively consistent results are said to be ________.

Alfred Binet designed the first ________ test.

The tendency to perceive and approach problems in the same ways that have worked in the past is called ______.

Researchers typically stress that a key aspect of intelligence is ________.

Jordan is a 10-year-old boy who has a mental age of 8 years. His IQ would be ________.