Exam 8: Cognition, language, and Intelligence

 Although it is clear that most animals have ____ ability,it is unclear whether or not most animals have ____ ability. 

 The ACT and SAT are tests that use the same set of procedures,scoring methods,and questions for all tests takers.This makes these kinds of tests ____. 

 What is one of Howard Gardner's nine multiple intelligences? 

 When Alfred Binet developed a test of intelligence in France,the test was specifically designed to ____. 

 A careful analysis of the research on gender differences in intelligence leads the authors of your textbook to conclude that ____. 

 Which of the following is an ill-structured problem?​ 

 Many students are surprised to learn that the idea they had of a tomato being a vegetable is different from what they learn to be the true botanical definition of a tomato as actually a fruit.The students' prior idea that they learned outside of the classroom would be a good example of a(n)____.​ 

 Natural concepts ____.​ 

 A child taking the Stanford-Binet test who scores at an "average" level of intelligence would show a ____ that is equal to his/her ____. 

 If you remember many stories told by your grandparents about your ethnic and cultural background,and if these stories have greatly influenced you to continue the customs,beliefs,and values of that culture,you have provided support for ____. 

 Which item is the best example of a prototype for the category fruit?​ 

 Compare and contrast the views on intelligence of Spearman and Cattell to those of Gardner and Sternberg.

 Explain what interactionism is as the dominant perspective in psychology today on the nature-nurture debate regarding intelligence.

 In what way does language appear to influence thinking? 

 In a study conducted by Stephen Kosslyn,subjects memorized a map and then were asked to mentally scan the path of an imaginary dot as it traveled from one point to another point on the map.The results showed that ____.​ 

 The information you have stored about psychology in your long-term memory represents your ____ base.​ 

 The fact that gender differences in intellectual abilities vary by culture,age,and race suggests that ____. 

 The dominant perspective in the nature-nurture debate today is called ____ 

 Daniel Goleman is most closely associated with which type of intelligence? 

 By the age of six,the average child ____.