Exam 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language

Don tells Ray that he wants to get a new sports car. Ray immediately understands why because he is familiar with the common characteristics of sports cars and knows what makes them different from family cars. Ray is using mental categories called ________.

Creativity is the ability to __________.

People are termed gifted in terms of intelligence if their IQ exceeds 130.

A male has a defect in the X chromosome of the 23rd pair. As children, people with this syndrome experience symptoms that can range from mild to severe or even profound intellectual disability. This is known as ________.

The basic meaningful units of any language are called ________.

Most standardized tests of intelligence have a distribution of scores that ________.

How many morphemes are there in the sentence "I wanted it"?

A psychological test that measures what we intend it to measure is said to be

What is the major premise behind the linguistic relativity hypothesis?

PET scans have demonstrated that when you are creating a visual image, ________.

Köhler demonstrated "Aha!" or insight behavior with ________.

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

The Binet-Simon scale was originally developed to __________.

Which of these is one of Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences?

Which of the following questions would be more likely to produce divergent thinking?

An advantage of algorithms over heuristics is that ________.

Researchers have found that ______ influenced by culture.

A company puts together a team to solve the problem of a product's declining sales. One member of the group suggests that the team members generate as many ideas as they can in a short period of time without being critical of any particular idea. This technique of stimulating divergent thinking is called ________.

Which of these is an element of the formal definition of intellectual disability?

An IQ test is developed that supposedly measures people's intelligence. It is given to a large and random sample of college students. It is found that the test correlates in a highly positive manner with the students' GPAs. The test designer may be justified in claiming that the test is valid.