Exam 11: Intelligence and Thinking

In Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences there are types of intelligence not usual in psychological theory, such as linguistic, logical-mathematical and spatial intelligences.

Gardner's theory of intelligence is considered to be a __________ theory.

A subordinate concept is the type that people use most often because it makes important distinctions between different categories.

The correlation in intelligence between fraternal twins is higher than that between identical twins.

Gertrude is 85 years old and recently lost her husband. Soon after her husband's death, she began to show signs of dementia for which there are no physical explanations. Gertrude's dementia is most likely the result of

The argument that people do not look up the meanings of concepts in their heads in the same way that they look up meanings of words in a dictionary was made by

Jerrald is 7 and has a mental age of 10. What is his ratio IQ?

Ordinary people tend to use __________ concepts and experts tend to use __________ concepts.

"Eduction of correlates"refers to people's ability to

According to Sternberg, the novel tasks component of creative intelligence is similar to __________ whereas the automated tasks component is similar to __________.

Among the different kinds of concepts, the finest distinctions are made by __________ concepts.

The __________ approach attempts to understand intelligence by studying the kinds of skills people use to think and solve problems.

A child born with fetal alcohol syndrome will

Gardner has proposed that intelligence is made up of __________ categories.

A recipe would be an example of a heuristic.

Cattell conceptualized __________ intelligence as a person's endowed capacity for intellectual performance.

To assess a child's intellectual ability, Binet and Simon (1905),

The decision to spend a large or small amount of time reading a passage as a function of the level of information you need from it, is controlled by the __________ component of __________ intelligence in Sternberg's theory.

Binet and Simon revised their 1905 test to also include the intellectual assessment of

The first intelligence test was devised by __________ in order to identify children who would not benefit from regular educational practices.