Exam 8: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Use the following problem to list and illustrate each of the three steps in problem-solving. Describe how the five problem-solving barriers might or might not affect your ability to solve this problem. "Imagine that you are running late for a job interview and you spill coffee on the front of your only clean shirt just before you walk out the door. It is important to make a good first impression with the panel who will be interviewing you. What should you do?"

Discuss how psychologists answer the question, "Are intelligence tests culturally biased"?

Only about _____% of the general population have an intellectual disability and, of that number, about _____ are mildly disabled.

Gina works for a boss who is very insecure and critical. Because Gina believes she would be punished for creative ideas, she is unlikely to attempt to be creative. Gina lacks the resources of _____.

The establishment of norms (averages) in order to assess what is representative of the general population is called _____.

Intellectually gifted people score in the top _____ percent on a standard IQ test.

Which of the following is the most basic unit of sound?

Which of the following conclusions can be drawn the finding that people are faster to verify that a cocker spaniel is a dog compared to the time it takes to verify that a cocker spaniel is an animal?

An artificial or formal concept arises from _____.

Minority schoolchildren perform better on verbal intelligence tests when they are told the test has nothing to do with school compared to when they are told the test is school-related. Which of the following can be concluded?

Human language differs from communication in nonhuman animals in that it is _____.

Speed of response is _____ correlated with IQ scores.

Contrast Spearman's, Thurstone's, and Cattell's concepts of intelligence, and illustrate the differences between fluid and crystallized intelligence.

Current research regarding the origins of intellectual capacity _____.

The _____ area in Einstein's brain was 15% larger than the same area in other people.

What are the three abilities commonly associated with creativity?

Thinking that produces many alternative ideas is called _____.

Problem-solving is the act of moving _____.

Applying the basic rules of grammar to cases that are exceptions to the rules is called _____.

Chomsky believes we possess an inborn brain capacity to analyze language known as the _____.