Exam 8: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Persons who work as sales managers, therapists, and teachers may be high in which type of intelligence?

If you guess that a slender young woman who is soft-spoken and athletic is a ballet dancer, rather than a CEO of a Fortune-500 company, then you used which of the following in your judgment of her?

Multi-word sentences that contain only the most necessary words and omit connecting words are called ________.

The "a" sound in the word "answer" is an example of a ________.

List and describe the different levels of severity with regard to intellectual disability, and note the proportions of each that would be seen among those who are afflicted with these challenges.

With each generation in society, the overall intelligence scores of the population seems to increase. This is called the ________ effect, and it may be due to a number of environmental factors.

Which of the following is one of the index scores produced by the WAIS?

A fixed thinking approach to problem solving that only sees solutions that have previously proven to be successful is called ________.

If a test has a high level of criterion-related validity, then its scores will be useful in ________.

Discuss the idea of Chomsky's language acquisition device and the nature/nurture debate surrounding it.

Ethnic group differences in IQ scores can be due to ________.

The fact that the word "compass" has multiple definitions refers to the idea of ________.

Working backwards is an example of a(n) ________.

People with limited mental abilities who demonstrate exceptional ability in specific areas may be diagnosed with ________.

Imagine that you have just had a baby who will follow normal developmental milestones. Name your baby, and describe his or her language development from birth through age 5.

Persons who work as engineers, architects, and pilots may be high in which type of intelligence?

Wernicke's area is responsible for ________.

The term disidentify in the area of stereotype threat refers to the idea of ________.

When Don gets stuck in traffic, he decides to take an alternative route to the mall. What aspect of creative thinking is this?

The idea of the language acquisition device supports the role of which perspective in language development?