Exam 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language

Which of the following statements about gifted people is true?

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

Charles Spearman believed that intelligence is composed of ________.

Talia is looking for her cat by methodically searching each room and then closing the door. She is using what type of problem solving strategy?

The theory of multiple intelligences was proposed by __________.

Language is based on sound units called morphemes.

Researchers have found that ________ influenced by culture.

Gardner and his associates are known for proposing ________.

________ intelligence has been suggested by Goleman to be a more powerful influence on life than more traditional views, though the research supporting this claim has been mixed.

A person starts from one point and comes up with many different ideas or possibilities based on that point. The person is engaging in ________.

Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf theorized that ____________, a concept reflected in their linguistic relativity hypothesis.

The ability to solve problems by combining behaviors and ideas in new ways is called ________.

Which of the following statements is true about infants?

If intelligence is determined primarily by heredity, which pair should show the highest correlation between IQ scores?

When adults who are speaking to infants change the pitch and rhythm in their speech, they are altering their ________.

Alfred Binet designed the first ______ test.

John and Karen bought a new house with an unfinished basement. To determine how they want to finish it, they lay down tape on the floor showing where walls will go and rooms will be. This process of problem solving is known as

The first thing that comes to mind when asked to name an example from a category is called the ________.

Charles Spearman believed that intelligence is composed of:

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