Exam 8: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence

Which individual is given credit for developing the modern intelligence test?

Describe the stages that infants and children go through as they learn language.

According to Daniel Goleman, if you have a high degree of self-confidence, self-control, achievement motivation, initiative, and a sense of optimism, you have high ____.

According to sociocultural theory, older and more knowledgeable society members pass on the values, beliefs, and customs of their culture to children by______.

After struggling with and thinking for several days about the approach you should take in your research paper, you suddenly determine a successful approach. This is most correctly called ____.

Phonemes are to ____ as morphemes are to ____.

Who viewed intelligence as the capacity to find and maintain a purpose, adopt a strategy to reach that purpose, and evaluate the strategy so it can be adjusted as necessary?

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

Exemplars are to ____ as prototypes are to ____.

In order for a test of intelligence to be accepted by psychologists as a "good" test, it must be ____.

By the age of six, the average child ____.

According to Lev Vygotsky and his sociocultural theory, ____.

Research with Bonobo chimpanzees, dolphins, and birds has shown that some animals____.

Jada is five years old. Which test is appropriate for use in measuring her IQ?

When you consider the flexible and intuitive rules associated with the term spiritual, you are considering a ____.

Henri found 50 different uses for bandage strips in a two-minute time frame. Henri is ____.

Even though infants begin to use language at a very early age, suggesting some innate ability to learn language, they may still have learned much of their language from their environment. This highlights the ____ debate in language learning.

We form prototypes for ______ categories.

Explain what interactionism is as the dominant perspective in psychology today on the nature-nurture debate regarding intelligence.

With regard to how we acquire the concepts that help to organize our thinking, formal concepts are more likely ____, whereas natural concepts are more likely____.