Exam 10: The Thinking Mind: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence

A measure of an individual's overall intelligence as opposed to specific abilities is called ____ intelligence.

At the start of the spring semester, Marie decides that she will focus more on her physical health. Her solution is to start jogging with a goal of running in the annual Memorial Day 10K. The most critical element for Marie to successfully implement her solution is to ____.

How is the term cognition , derived from the Latin word cogito , described in your text?

Which group is most likely to use visual images in their thought processes?

Max, an attorney, is attending a hearing at the federal courthouse. He opens the courthouse door for a young woman with a tattoo on her forearm. When Max enters the room of the hearing, he is stunned to see that the assigned judge is the same woman. Max had applied the ____.

The childhood ability to directly access visual images may be overwritten or interfered with by the development of ____.

Understanding a problem should ____.

Which of the following is a problem that children with intellectual disability commonly face?

A heuristic is a(n)____.

Yves is called on in class to define the representativeness heuristic. He answers that "it is a rule of thumb in which stimuli similar to an exemplar are believed to be more likely than stimuli that are dissimilar." Which part of his definition is incorrect?

Which of the following is true about dyslexia?

Of the following, who best demonstrates social or emotional intelligence?

Describe the results of the research study on whether groups of people working together have a collective intelligence (Woolley, Chabris, Pentland, Hashmi, & Malone, 2010). What factors contributed (or detracted)from the group's collective intelligence? Briefly discuss a situation in which you worked on a group project at work, school, or within your family. In what ways did your experience reflect the research findings? How was the experience dissimilar?

Intellectual disability is a condition diagnosed in individuals with deficits in intellectual functioning beginning in childhood and ____.

Many scholars, including linguists Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker, believe that human beings ____.

Of the following, who has a speech pattern comparable to that of Paul Broca's research subject Leborgne?

Which of the following is the best example of an adaptive behavior?

Critics point out that ape language must be taught laboriously, whereas children build vocabularies spontaneously. This may support an argument that apes have ____.

Shirley's home is full of piles of old newspapers and magazines. She feels she might find the information in these useful someday. She also collects rags, old paper towels, plastic bags, and empty bottles and cans. Shirley likely has ____. ​

Jason is looking down at the tiny vent holes on his laptop computer, and notices how dusty they have become. When blowing on the holes does not clear the dust from them, he takes a paper clip and unbends it. He then uses the straight ends to clear the dust from each of the vent holes. Although this takes a bit of time, he is pleased with the overall result. Jason's ability to look at the paper clip and see something other than holding papers together illustrates that he has overcome _____.