Exam 8: Cognition, language, and Intelligence

 When Katherine makes a shopping list,she is very specific.Her list includes a 14 ounce can of Big Red diced tomatoes with peppers and onions and an eight-ounce package of Thick-n-Luscious cream cheese.Katherine's list uses ____ categories. 

 Lamar is in the water well drilling business in Oklahoma,and he has a talent for knowing where to find water.According to Robert Sternberg,Lamar is high in ____ intelligence. 

 Which item belongs in the subordinate category?​ 

 Which test did David Wechsler develop? 

 Which statement is TRUE of insight?​ 

 Exemplars are to ____ as prototypes are to ____.​ 

 When you learn the specific criteria or rules that psychologists use to diagnose attention deficit ​disorder in children,you are learning the ____ involved in this type of diagnosis. 

 Robert Sternberg's analytic intelligence reflects the ability to ____. 

 Herb is reading about colleges and trying to decide which one is best for him.In psychological terms,Herb is ____.​ 

 Research on the strong form of the Whorfian hypothesis has ____. 

 Children typically begin to speak their first words at around ____.​ 

 You attend a meeting where 50% of the people in attendance are psychology majors,10% are engineering majors,20% are business majors,and 20% are pre-law majors.At this meeting,you meet Charles.Charles is wearing a white button-down shirt and a pair of jeans.He wears glasses and he has a calculator in the front pocket of his shirt.If you base your judgment on the base rate,you should guess that Charles is a(n)____ major.​ 

 Jada is five years old.Which test is appropriate for use in measuring her IQ? 

 Some people might say that the "glass is half full," while others might say that the "glass is half empty." These different ways of saying the same thing reflect a difference in ____.​ 

 Which test is used for emotional intelligence? 

 Children who grow up in a home that is bilingual will ____.​ 

 According to the availability heuristic,you are more likely to ____ the number of days that it snows each year,if asked to make this judgment on a ____ day.​ 

 Well-structured problems can be solved through the use of ____.​ 

 When Alfred Binet administered his intelligence test in France,he found that ____. 

 Concepts are stored in memory in a ____.​