Exam 7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Anna points to an object and tells her two-year-old son what it is. He then points and repeats what Anna said. In the context of the social-cognitive perspective, Anna serves as a(n) _____ for her child to acquire language skills. 

The anchoring and adjustment heuristic is a decision-making heuristic in which:  

The__________is a decision-making heuristic in which our estimates of frequency or probability of events are based on how easy it is to find examples. 

According to research, intelligence quotient (IQ) scores tend to increase during the summer vacation. 

__________includes problem-solving skills such as encoding information, combining and comparing bits of information, and generating a solution. 

__________is the ability to generate novel and useful solutions to problems. 

Children's__________become refined after they are shown positive and negative instances and given explanations. 

In the context of factors that affect problem solving, _____ refers to the tendency to view an object in terms of its name or familiar usage. 

_____ refers to conscious, planned attempts to make sense of and change the world. 

In the context of psycholinguistic theory, the inborn tendency to acquire language is referred to as a(n) _____. 

An intelligence quotient (IQ) is independent of his or her chronological age (CA). 

According to psycholinguistic theory, _____. 

Which of the following statements is true of language?  

An anagram is a partial similarity among things that are different in other ways. 

In the context of creativity and intelligence, creative problem solving demands convergent rather than divergent thinking. 

Louis Thurstone's primary mental abilities contain the types of items measured on the most widely used intelligence tests today. 

Telegraphic speech is brief and grammatically incorrect. 

In language development, over inclusion of instances in a category is labeled _____. 

Which of the following statements is true of concepts?  

The _____ groups test questions into a number of separate subtests where each subtest measures a different intellectual task.