Exam 9: Language, Thought, and Intelligence

________ consists of visual representations created by the brain after the original stimulus is no longer present.

Which of the following is a component of crystallized intelligence?

Why is matrix reasoning considered as a fluid intelligence?

Which of the following is a characteristic of the mother that explains differences in the timing of the child's vocabulary development?

Jennifer is a botanist. She understands how plants and animals live and survive in the environment. According to Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, Jennifer most likely has high ________.

Jeanne believes that right-handed people are better at playing tennis than left-handed people. When she engages in an argument with her friend, she ignores any evidence that supports the fact that left-handed people are equally good at playing tennis. Jeanne only gathers evidence about her beliefs and tries only to support her perspective. This is an example of ________.

Michael works in an IT firm that is well known for making innovative products. Michael is asked to develop a product that would serve an unmet need. Though he has many ideas for it, none of them quite fits the bill. He finally decides to stand back from the problem for a period of time and ceases to consciously think about the yet-to-be-developed product. After a week, as he looks over his notes, he realizes the solution. The period of time in which Michael did not consciously work on the problem is referred to as ________.

A bird has two legs, two eyes, and feathers, and it uses its wings to fly in the sky. The organizing of this information about birds is known as a(n) ________.

Identify an accurate statement about crystallized intelligence.

Henry has a mental age of 10. His chronological age is 12. According to William Stern's intelligence ratio, what is Henry's intelligence quotient (IQ)?

According to the Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, who among the following is most likely to have high spatial intelligence?

David, 15 years of age, has trouble in all his language subjects. Based on the sensitivity period, this is because he did not get proper exposure to human language from birth to ________.

The Binet test was adapted for American students by ________.

In the context of language acquisition, environmental theories tend to focus more on vocabulary, whereas nativist theories focus more on ________.

Which of the following statements is true about familial-cultural intellectual disability?

Which of the following is a term used by psychologists to describe an image or idea in the mind that stands for an external object or thing sensed in the past or future, not the present?

Which of the following cases best describes an insight solution to a problem?

Jennifer says that she is good at solving problems which require her to navigate and visualize objects from different angles. Jennifer has a high level of ________.

Which of the following statements is true about the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) model of intelligence?

The tendency to selectively attend to information that supports one's general beliefs while ignoring information or evidence that contradicts one's beliefs is known as ________.