Exam 13: Intelligence and Cognitive Functioning

Instead of looking for specific brain abnormalities,researchers are looking at:

The impairment of sociability in autistics has been linked to:

Mirror neuron activity may be deficient in individuals with autism and autism spectrum disorder due to reduced activity in the ___.

Evidence to support the "splitters" includes:

The characteristic most closely predicted by performance on intelligence tests is:

Juan lives in an affluent,white neighborhood in Boston while his identical twin Jose lives in a lower-class,mostly Hispanic neighborhood in Miami.If Juan had a higher IQ score than Jose,this would be evidence to support:

Robert Sternberg argues that:

A potential source of the decline in cognitive ability as we age is the reduced activity of ___.

Critics of IQ tests argue that:

The average IQ score is:

The leading environmental cause of intellectual disability is:

Individuals with ADHD have been found to have deficits in their ___.

Little Zoey still uses her fingers to count 2 + 3 while her older brother Zach calculates the sum mentally.Zoey is using her ___ and Zach is using his ___.

Intelligence has a heritability of about 50%.

The first intelligence test was:

Which of the following genetic factors seems to be involved in autism?

Mathematical abilities are located,to a large extent,in the:

Discuss the relationship of genetics and intelligence.

It is difficult to separate the effects of genetics and environment on intelligence partly because the environmental conditions are often related to genetics,such as socioeconomic status and health.

Testosterone replacement therapy studies have shown that this may increase ___ but to produce the most improvement,the testosterone has to ___.