Exam 8: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Which of the following items would MOST likely appear on a test measuring creativity?

The prelinguistic stage of verbal communication in the newborn (birth to four weeks) is characterized by _____.

Althea was working on her car and found a piece left over when she put her carburetor back together. Her neighbor's car was the same make and model, so she knocked on his door to ask if she could take his carburetor apart one piece at a time to determine where she went wrong. This is an example of the ______ heuristic.

Which of the following is CORRECTLY matched?

Creative thinking is related to _____.

Misjudging your risk of dying in an airplane crash because you just watched 24-hour coverage of one is MOST related to the _____ heuristic.

Murdock wants to get to his sister's new house, which he knows is north of where he is right now. Stranded without a map or a telephone, he decides to keep driving north in the hopes of finding the house. This is an example of the _____ heuristic.

Studies of speech corpuses show that people are just as likely to produce speech errors involving parts of words, such as "nail the letter" instead of "mail the letter," as they are to produce errors involving whole words, such as "fax the letter" instead of "mail the letter." This result suggests that people store language in terms of which building block?

"I goed to the zoo" and "I hurt my foots" are examples of _____.

Physicians, teachers, musicians, and politicians continue to work well into old age largely due to _____, which tends to increase over time.

Which of the following would support the idea that people store concepts in terms of prototypes?

Using information and acting on that information is evidence of _____.

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

_____ is the set of rules that specify how phonemes, morphemes, words, and phrases should be combined to express meaningful thoughts.

When confronted with a problem, persistence in using strategies that have worked in the past rather than new ones is called _____.

Prelinguistic cooing refers to the production of _____.

Which of the following sentences breaks the rules for English syntax?

An intelligence quotient (IQ) is _____.

Research shows that people are faster to verify that SLAP is a word when it is preceded by SLANT compared to when it is preceded by CRAMP. Which of the following conclusions can be drawn?

During the production stage of problem-solving, you should generate _____.