Exam 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language

What are mental categories representing activities, objects, qualities, or situations that share some common characteristics?

Researchers have found that __________ influenced by culture.

The __________ effect refers to the fact that IQ scores have increased generation to generation in modernized countries.

According to Sternberg, "book smarts" is another way of talking about which kind of intelligence?

Prefixes and suffixes are examples of __________.

According to Noam Chomsky, what is a language acquisition device?

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 __________.

You ask a student to describe the path to his dorm room. The most likely way in which he will do this is to ________.

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

Which of the following statements is TRUE about Terman's longitudinal study of gifted children?

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

The sounds t, th, and sh are __________.

Language is based on basic sound units called __________.

What is a "twin study"?

It is commonly thought that people who are "gifted" have various physical, psychological, and personality problems. What is really known about this common idea, and what did a famous study learn about the gifted?

The correct formula for determining IQ as used in Terman's development of the Stanford-Binet Test was __________.

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

Animals such as dolphins and chimps have shown some language-like behavior but have not been seen to demonstrate the language skills equal to that of a 3-year-old human child.

In recent studies, what do some researchers argue is a more accurate means of gauging success in relationships and careers?

Because of the need to measure the IQ of people of varying ages, newer IQ tests base their evaluation of IQ on __________.