Exam 8: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence

Concepts we store in our long-term memories tend to be organized around the ____ of the information they represent.

When the child you are babysitting says, "mommy gone," meaning "My mommy is gone," the child is using a typical form of language for two-year-olds called ____.

Which of the following is one of the index scores on the WAIS-IV?

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

Twin studies show that intelligence ____.

Dr. Abaee is developing a new intelligence test. He gives his test to a group of 100 participants and records their scores. Six months later, he retests the same participants on the test and finds that their scores match well with the scores they earned when tested six months earlier. What can we conclude about Dr. Abaee's test based on this study?

Martin is 20 years old, but he scored like an average 15-year-old on the Stanford-Binet intelligence test. Martin's IQ would be approximately ____.

Describe the three hierarchical categories that we use to organize our mental concepts.

Anna, a high school senior, is a star tennis player who wants to make it on the professional tour. If Anna is high in risk aversion, what is the next step she will likely choose?

Compare and contrast the views of intelligence held by Charles Spearman and Howard Gardner.

When deaf Nicaraguan children were free to communicate with each other in any way they wished, they ____.

According to Sternberg, ____ intelligence refers to our ability to use logic to reason our way through problems.

On the Stanford-Binet test, an IQ score of 80 would indicate ____.

In inductive reasoning, ____.

Prototype is to most typical as exemplar is to ____.

What do L. L. Thurstone, Howard Gardner, and Robert Sternberg all have in common?

Which of the following is an ill-structured problem?

Through the scientific method, psychologists attempt to determine general principles of behavior and mental processes. In this process, psychologists use ____.

A child at the age of nine months would be expected to be in the ____ stage of language development.

If you assume that a student is preppy because he wears pastel colored sweaters and boat shoes, you are using a(n) ____ as the basis for your assumption.