Exam 8: Cognition, language, and Intelligence

 Which item belongs to the superordinate category?​ 

 The finding that the constant use of male pronouns (he,him,his)when speaking about hypothetical people in general language can influence gender stereotyping provides support for the ____. 

 The strong and weak forms of the Whorfian hypothesis state that ____. 

 Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence is most important for a(n)____. 

 Sarah is taking a test.The first question asks her how many uses she can think of for a beach towel.The next question asks how many ways she could think of to travel from Chicago to Los Angeles.The third question asks how many strategies she can think of to recruit new students to her university.Sarah is probably taking a test to measure her ability in which area?​ 

 In contrast to prototypes,exemplars are ____.​ 

 When you go to the store in search of a particular brand or style of shoes,you are searching most directly within a ____.​ 

 A 50-year-old person would typically have higher ____ but lower ____ than a 25-year-old person. 

 Which item best illustrates an exemplar for the category fruit?​ 

 Prototypes are most closely associated with which term?​ 

 A successful inventor who has developed many new uses for paper clips would most likely score high on a test of Robert Sternberg's ____. 

 Which item is the best example of a basic level category?​ 

 Ignoring the base rate of events is part of ____. 

 What do functional fixedness and mental sets have in common with each other?​ 

 According to Daniel Goleman,a person with a high level of intellectual abilities may still struggle in an intellectual pursuit if ____ intelligence is lacking. 

 If your 13-month-old child uses the noun "drink" to refer only to juice and not to other liquids that are also drinks,he is exhibiting a common language tendency called ____.​ 

 Well-structured problems are to ____ as ill-structured problems are to ____.​ 

 Logan has an autism spectrum disorder and has a great deal of difficulty understanding the social rules involved in conversation.Logan is having difficulty with ____. 

 Regarding the categories we use to organize our knowledge,superordinate categories are ____ and subordinate categories are ____.​ 

 Psychologists who believe that humans have a language acquisition device also tend to believe that ____.​