Exam 7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

In contrast to learning theory, the nativist theory of language development proposes that __________ factors account for the acquisition of language.

Children between the ages of three and five incorrectly apply the rules of past tense and plurals and say "sitted" instead of "sat" and "gooses" instead of "geese." This phase of language development reflects

Sally has a preschool-age child. To ensure the child's intellectual functioning is enhanced, what techniques should Sally incorporate in the home environment?

To answer multiple-choice questions, one should use convergent thinking.

In your high school French class, you first learned vocabulary and then you practiced conversational French. In the beginning, you were using the _________ of the language, and then you were using the __________ capacity of the language.

Charles Spearman argued for a single "general intelligence" factor because he noted that

A sofa, bed, and table are __________ of the category furniture, but a magazine rack, hassock, and piano bench are not.

David a typical, nontechnically-oriented college student. It would not be unusual for him to attain _______ IQs on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.

Research has shown that males have a slight advantage in ________, while females are slightly more skilled in ________.

Mr. Dithering, an office manager of a service company, believes that he is an excellent judge of character and that he can spot a talented prospective employee in a brief interview. Often, he will point out his successful hires but fail to acknowledge poorly performing employees he hired. Dithering's judgment suffers from

When Francine prepared her New Year's resolutions on her health, finances, and relationships, she probably used __________ to formulate her goals and subgoals for each resolution.

____________ instance is to "dog" as ___________ instance is to "not dog."

Research regarding the use of language in animals supports the following:

Which of the following is not one of the several techniques that have been suggested to increase children's intellectual functioning?

Pat Murphy, a police officer of Irish ethnic background, is a black belt in karate and smokes cigars. On the basis of which rule of thumb do we assume that Pat is male?

A criticism of Gardner is that some think what he calls "intelligences" are actually

Circles, squares, rectangles, and angles are all part of a mathematical ______ called geometry.

During language development, children exhibit overinclusion of instances within a category such as calling a tiger a cat. This is referred to as

Which of the following is an analogy?

George lost the keys to his car sometime between the time he locked it and his return to the car about three hours later. George retraced his steps, going to all of the places he visited after he initially locked the car. George is using __________ to find his keys.