Exam 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language

The goal of all test developers is to ____________ cultural bias in their intelligence tests.

The ability to produce work that is both novel and appropriate is called:

In 1994, researchers ________ published a controversial book entitled The Bell Curve in which they implied that people from lower socioeconomic classes are poor because they are less intelligent.

What is the definition of language? What is the evidence, pro and con, as to whether nonhuman animals have a capacity for language?

Which of these might be an example of a performance item on the Wechsler tests of intelligence?

Which of the following statements BEST describes the general relationship between thinking and language?

According to Sternberg, all but which of the following are types of intelligence?

The system of rules that governs how we assign meaning to the morphemes we use is called __________.

Which of the following groups of children is most likely to have the most similar IQ scores?

Terman's study of gifted children over a long period of their lives clearly demonstrated that the gifted were lacking in social skills, had poor health, and were generally unhappy.

The sounds t, th, and sh are ________.

Give an example of an algorithm.

The divergent thinking technique of starting with a central idea and drawing a "map" with lines from the center to other related ideas and then forming a mental image of the concepts and their connections is known as ________.

The phrase "I tried" has ________.

In contrast to comparing mental age to chronological age, most modern tests of intelligence use ____________.

The concept of generalized intelligence is largely based on the theories of __________.

What is one criticism of the conclusions offered by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray in The Bell Curve?

Explain the techniques used when someone tries to solve a problem. How might a person be blocked in trying to find a solution?

Trial and error is sometimes referred to as a(n)

Give a brief definition of the term concept and provide an example of one with its associated prototype.