Exam 8: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Children make errors like "mouses" and "goed" versus "mice" and "went" because they _____ the rules of grammar.

CURRENT thinking regarding Whorf's linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests that _____.

Reliability can be determined using _____.

For most psychologists, language is a formal _____, whereas the public generally uses fuzzy _____.

Before a new product arrives in the store, a manufacturer goes through several stages including designing, building, testing a prototype, setting up a production line, and so on. This approach is called _____.

Brain activity is _____ correlated with intelligence.

The misuse of words to include objects that don't fit a word's meaning is called _____.

Which of the following supports the idea that people store words in terms of their morphemes?

Discuss the features of developing an intelligence test in terms of standardization, reliability, and validity.

Define and illustrate of each of the following building blocks of language: phonemes, morphemes, and syntax.

When members of a minority group doubt their abilities and fear they may fulfill their group's negative typecast, they are experiencing _____.

The stereotype threat affects the IQ scores of which of the following groups?

The tendency to think of an object functioning only in its usual or customary way is called _____.

_____ intelligence is relatively independent of education and includes reasoning, memory, and speed of processing, which declines slowly as people age.

Algorithms are great for:

Intellectual disability applies to an individual with significant deficits in adaptive functioning and a score below _____ on a standard IQ test.

A mental representation of a group or category that shares similar characteristics is called _____.

Describe the evidence for genetic and environmental influences on intelligence.

When you group subcategories within broader concepts or categories, you are creating _____.

Based on most people's prototype for fruit, which of the following would take longer to classify?