Exam 10: Thinking and Language

The ability to delay immediate pleasures in pursuit of long-range rewards is most clearly a characteristic of

Tests designed to predict ability to learn new skills are called

Allowing time for complex ideas to incubate outside of conscious awareness is most likely to promote

A test designed to assess whether newly graduated medical students should be granted the legal right to practice medicine would most likely be considered a(n) ________ test.

Satoshi Kanazawa claims that people's scores on the general intelligence factor are most highly correlated with their ability to solve ________ problems.

A frontal lobe area just above the outer edge of the eyebrows becomes especially active in ________ of the brain while contemplating verbal questions and in ________ of the brain while contemplating spatial questions.

Older adults outperformed younger adults in their responses to New York Times crossword puzzles. The superior performance of these older adults best illustrates the value of

Research participants have been exposed to an incomplete stimulus followed by a masking image in order to assess

Intrinsic motivation is thought to be an important component of

Among entering American collegians, men are ________ likely than women to spend many hours playing video games. Playing action video games has been observed to ________ players' spatial abilities.

The average difference in intellectual aptitude scores of White and Black college graduates has been observed to be greatest when these individuals were

The test created by Alfred Binet was designed specifically to

An IQ of approximately 70 or below and difficulty adapting to the normal demands of life is most clearly an indication of

Anders Ericsson reports a 10-year rule for expert performance that highlights the importance of

Which test has been demonstrated to be a highly reliable measure?

Managers who want to foster creativity in the workplace should try to increase the ________ of their employees.

The sort of problem solving that demonstrates "school smarts" is what researchers have historically assessed in their tests of

Compared with men, women are ________ capable of remembering objects' spatial locations and they are ________ sensitive to taste and color.

Among Americans scoring in the top 1 in 10,000 on the ________ at age 12 or 13, more than half have earned doctorates.

When Brandon was told that he correctly answered 80 percent of the items on a math achievement test, he asked how his performance compared with that of the average test-taker. Brandon's concern was directly related to the issue of