Exam 8: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Define cognition, thinking, and concepts, and describe the three strategies for learning concepts, illustrating your answer with examples.

The smallest meaningful unit of language is called a _____.

This is a psychological predicament in which a person experiences doubt about his or her performance due to negative beliefs about his or her group's ability.

The sound for /ng/ is called _____; whereas the suffix /ing/ is called _____.

_____ is the set of grammatical rules that specify how to arrange words and phrases in a sentence to convey meaning.

_____ refers to the meaning (or study of meaning) derived from words and word combinations.

According to Whorf's linguistic relativity hypothesis, _____.

When you use a knife as a screwdriver, you have _____.

Define creativity and describe the three elements of creative thinking. Describe Sternberg and Lubart's investment theory of creativity and the six resources they considered necessary for creative thinking.

Which of the following is TRUE of mentally gifted people, compared to people of average intellectual abilities?

Judging the likelihood or probability of events based on how easily other such events can be recalled is known as the _____ heuristic.

The _______ is the ability of a test to measure what it is designed to do.

The Wechsler Intelligence Scales yield _____.

The idea that people differ in their "profiles of intelligence," showing unique patterns of strengths and weaknesses, is related to _____.

You develop _____ that are interrelated in order to better learn the material in this course.

An interior designer on the TV show "Trading Spaces" used the frame of a car to create a child's bed. This is an example of _____.

Lamar is thinking about all the ways he can come up with the money he needs to buy the used Yugo he saw advertised in the "Car Trader" yesterday. Lamar is _____.

The g factor originally proposed by Charles Spearman is best defined as _____.

Researchers in the Minnesota study found that genetic factors played _____ role in IQ scores of identical twins reared apart.

Which are examples of abstract concepts?