Exam 13: Intelligence and Cognitive Functioning

If an older female relative of yours took estrogen replacement therapy to treat the negative effects of menopause, what could be a beneficial side effect?

For the most part, the term "intelligence" can be defined as ______.

The controversial beliefs that IQ scores have a genetic basis and that there are ethnic differences in average IQ score are held by extreme ______.

What is the correct term used to refer to someone with a developmental limitation in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior?

Which of the following is FALSE when attempting to explain the higher incidence of ASD in males?

Juan lives in the affluent neighborhood in Louisburg Square, Boston. Meanwhile, his identical twin Jose lives in a lower-class, diverse neighborhood in Roxbury. If Juan had a higher IQ score than Jose, this would be evidence to support ______.

Research has found that during the Zika virus epidemic, all of the reported infants born to an infected mother showed signs of microcephaly.

Which of the following animals has never been shown to use objects as tools?

DNA methylation has been shown to differ between subjects with Down syndrome and otherwise healthy controls by ______.

Robert Sternberg, who compared the verbal SAT scores of presidential candidates in 2000, argued that ______.

Discuss the relationship of genetics and intelligence.

Which test do many theorists prefer to use as a measure of intelligence?

If you were doing some basic arithmetic to figure out how much money to tip a server for good (15%) or excellent (20%) service in your head, what part of your brain would be most active?

Which of the following is NOT a reason for the difficulties in determining which environmental factors contribute to intelligence?

Which of following is NOT correlated with increases in autism?

A strain of mice engineered with a third copy of a critical chromosome 21 region produced ______.

In a mouse model of Down syndrome, what happened to pregnant mice when they were treated with proteins that support neuron survival?

A savant can be described as someone with exceptional intellectual skills.

Which latest virus outbreak became a serious concern when babies born to infected mothers showed smaller-than-normal brains?

In an attempt to reconcile opposing findings in regard to how much connectivity occurs in the autistic brain, it has been suggested that ______ occurs in milder cases of ASD, while ______ occurs in more severe cases.