Exam 7: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

The babbling of infants in all cultures sounds much the same, but by 9 or 10 months of age,

In regard to problem solving, functional fixedness __________ solutions.

In a debate on welfare reform, the conservative candidate made her presentation, followed by the moderate candidate, and closing with the liberal candidate. The candidates made equally strong presentations of their views. A poll of those who watched revealed a tendency to take the position of the conservative candidate more than the others. This outcome may have been due to the __________ heuristic.

Ashley has a lot of "book smarts" and does well in school. Robert Sternberg would say that she has good __________ intelligence.

Describe the differences between representative, availability and anchoring and adjustment heuristics.

According to the textbook, which person is most likely to graduate from high school and complete college?

Creativity is the ability to generate novel and useful solutions to problems.

Two-year-old Melissa calls the postman "Daddy" when she sees a man with large shoes and long pants at their doorstep. Her mother says, "No, that's the postman!" Melissa is displaying __________ and her mother is teaching by __________.

Generating many possible solutions is a characteristic of

Charles Spearman argued for a single "general intelligence" factor because he noted that

Simple prototypes can be taught by means of exemplars, or pointing out examples that fit and those that do not. What are these examples referred to as?

Which of the following can be categorized as belonging to the same concept as "mineral"?

Kia is a foster child in an American home. Based on the results of most kinship studies, we would predict that her IQ would be __________ the IQs of her foster parents.

Tests of creativity often measure ____________ in a person's thinking.

Imitation is to learning theory as __________ is to psycholinguistic theory.

"Emotional intelligence" is similar to Howard Gardner's __________ intelligence.

Mr. Dithering, an office manager of a service company, believes that he is an excellent judge of character and that he can spot a talented prospective employee in a brief interview. Often he will point out his successful hires, but fails to acknowledge poorly performing employees he hired. What does Mr. Dithering's judgment suffer from?

Prototypes are often taught by use of examples, or exemplars.

We often base our estimates of the likelihood of events on how easily information is accessed. This describes the __________ heuristic.

Overall, most studies suggest that the heritability of intelligence is