Exam 8: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Imagine that you have just had a baby, who will follow normal developmental milestones. Name your baby, and describe his or her language development from birth through age 5.

Many people mistakenly believe that minorities are responsible for more crimes in this country than Caucasians. This is most likely due to the media's increased focus on minorities, which makes many viewers fall prey to the ________________ heuristic.

Discuss the role of stereotype threat and how it might endanger the performance of minority groups on measures of intelligence.

If we want to use level of education to predict annual income, which of the following must be in place?

A child who is 2.5 years of age would be capable of which of the following?

One criticism of the Minnesota study on the genetic influence of intelligence was as follows:

"Play" is a _____, whereas "pre" Is a _____.

Discuss the idea of Chomsky's language acquisition device, and the nature/nurture debate surrounding it.

Cognition includes the processes of _____.

What is mentally acting upon information by forming ideas, reasoning, solving problems, drawing conclusions, expressing thoughts, and comprehending the thoughts of others?

The English language has about how many phonemes?

The fact that emotions are universal is supported by which of the following?

The nature proponents of the language acquisition device would believe in the role of __________ in language development.

Define and illustrate of each of the following building blocks of language: phonemes, morphemes, grammar, syntax, and semantics.

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