Exam 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language

What might be the best predictor of why some people do not excel in school but essentially succeed in their life and career choices?

The system of rules for combining words and phrases to form correct sentences is called __________.

A realistic goal for all test developers is to __________ cultural bias in their intelligence tests.

One day at work, Julie's earring fell on the floor, and she was unable to find the back. To keep from losing her earring, Julie reinserted it and used part of a pencil eraser to keep the earring in place. Using a pencil eraser as a temporary earring back showed that Julie overcame __________.

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

Fragile X, Down syndrome, and fetal alcohol syndrome are all potential causes of intellectual disability.

Which is the most likely prototype for the concept "vehicle"?

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

Young children sometimes literally interpret sentences like "Do you know where your mommy is?" by answering "Yes." They fail to understand the __________ of the question.

Reza is 22 years old. For her job, she needs to take an intelligence test. Which would be the most appropriate test for her age group?

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

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?

A seemingly arbitrary flash "out of the blue," through which the solution to a problem suddenly becomes apparent to you, but you do not consciously know how you "figured it out," is called ________.