Exam 8: Cognition, language, and Intelligence

 Anna,a high school senior,is deciding on a career path.If Anna is high in risk aversion,which career will she likely choose?​ 

 Sometimes when making a decision,we exhibit loss aversion,which means that we make a decision that reflects a ____.​ 

 If a four-year-old child were shown to have a mental age of four when taking the Stanford-Binet test,the child's IQ would be ____. 

 What is a well-developed,syntactical verbal system for representing the world?​ 

 Phonemes are to ____ as morphemes are to ____.​ 

 Linus has always enjoyed long walks through the woods,but recently,after several highly publicized attacks on hikers by bears,he finds himself fearful of going on a hike.Linus is using a(n)____. 

 If your 13-month-old child uses the title "grandpa" to refer to all older men,she is exhibiting a common language tendency called ____.​ 

 In inductive reasoning,____.​ 

 Dr.Tolman is a school psychologist who is working on a project to measure the intelligence of the children enrolled in a local preschool class.Which IQ test would be appropriate for Dr.Tolman's project? 

 Describe the evidence that mental images are in some ways like the actual stimulus,as well as the evidence that they are different from the actual stimulus.

 Based on your experience with your own college professors,you determine that all college professors tend to be liberal thinkers.This is an example of ____.​ 

 Determining that your psychology teacher is very intelligent because she has a doctoral degree from a university would be an example of ____.​ 

 Lewis Terman ____. 

 If you had read "The Bell Curve" and found that you disagreed with the authors' contentions about intelligence,you most likely believe that ____. 

 Which progression represents the correct sequence of language development in children?​ 

 Determining the number of miles per gallon you got on your last tank of gas by dividing the total mileage since your last fill-up by the number of gallons of gas purchased would be an example of using a(n)____. 

 What is IQ and how is it derived?

 Who will most likely learn a second language fluently?​ 

 In deductive reasoning,____.​ 

 Sometimes when making a decision we exhibit risk aversion,which means that we make a decision that reflects a ____.​