Exam 8: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

This is a form of communication that has rules for the use of sounds and symbols.

Insurance companies avoid errors due to _____ by calculating and analyzing base rates for accidents, age-related diseases, etc.

This is a representation of the "best" or most typical example of a category.

The mental activities involved in acquiring, storing, retrieving, and using knowledge are collectively known as _____.

When shown a picture of a poodle, most adults will first classify it as _____.

This is the knowledge and skills gained through experience and education that increase over a lifetime.

The cause(s) of intellectual disability is(are) _____.

Mental representations of previously stored sensory experiences are called _____.

Which of the following persons is using a mental image?

_____ thinking narrows a list of alternatives toward a single correct answer.

To develop an idea for a research paper in his English class, Shaleke should probably use _____ thinking.

Your "problem" is that you want a new car. Which of the following BEST demonstrates what you should do in the preparation stage for this problem?

The word "blanket" has _____ phoneme(s) and _____ morpheme(s).

This intelligence is genetically and biologically determined.

The definition of intelligence stated in your textbook stresses the capacity to _____.

Compared to human norms, Einstein's brain was _____.

If a test is standardized and reliable, what conclusions can you make about its validity?

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

Regarding creativity, the word "fluency" means _____.

Cognition includes the processes of _____.