Exam 8: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence

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 ____.

Studies on the IQs of African American children adopted into affluent European American families show that by middle school, the African American children score ____.

When children learn the pragmatics of speech, they are learning the ____.

Psychologists conduct image scanning studies in order to better understand ____.

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

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

Mental representations of the world around us seem to consist primarily of both ____.

Which forms of mental representations have psychologists studied with the most success?

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

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

Describe the reliable gender differences in intellectual abilities and explain what you think are the causes of these differences.

A well-structured problem is best described as one that ____.

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

Hakeem spent three hours trying to solve a physics problem to no avail. Finally, in frustration, he gave up and went to watch TV. To his surprise, while watching TV, Hakeem found that he suddenly knew how to solve the problem. Hakeem seems to have benefited from ____.

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

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

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 ____.

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

Perceived outcomes, the probability of achieving those outcomes, and the way in which options are framed are most important in ____.

Divergent thinking is most closely associated with which of the following?