Exam 7: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence

Lynda is an intellectually bright individual who seems to be good at just about anything she does. She was always a high-achieving student and scored excellent grades in all of her classes. Charles Spearman would say that Linda has a _____.

Sally is enrolled in a high school geometry course, which she describes as "drawing figures and figuring drawings." In a typical class, students draw geometric figures and use a formula to calculate an aspect of the figure such as its area. Each time Sally uses a formula, she is making use of what psychologists call _____

To be considered as standardized, a test must establish _____ by _____

The rules that determine how sounds and words can be combined and used to communicate meaning within a language are collectively known as _____

Everyone was talking at lunch about how awful it is that so many criminals try to get off by pleading insanity. Since less than 1% of violent felons actually make that plea, something other than the truth must be at play. It is probably the _____ because a recent case has been in the news constantly.

Psychologists who study animal behavior, cognition, and language in relation to human behavior, cognition, and language are _____ psychologists.

A famous lecturer argues that because the Hopi Indians have only two nouns for things that fly, one for birds and another for nonbirds, the Hopi MUST interpret all flying things in terms of these two nouns. This argument is based on _____

Approximately what percentage of IQ scores falls between 70 and 130?

Boys have better _____ abilities than girls on average.

The word scarecrow contains _____ phonemes.

_____, dictated by grammar, is the element of a language that guides us to the proper arrangement of words.

There is _____ correlation between IQ and creativity.

The sentences "The dog bit the boy" and "The boy was bit by the dog" have the same meaning, but differ in _____

Wanda is sitting in her bedroom studying for finals. She has her psychology, statistics, sociology, and biology textbooks all lying on her bed as she is reading and taking notes from her history textbook. It is a hot and sunny but windy day, and Wanda's window is open. She is becoming frustrated that the wind keeps slamming her bedroom door shut. Eventually, Wanda keeps her window shut because she is so irritated. Of course, now her bedroom is getting much too warm, which is adding to her frustration. This problem could be easily solved by propping the door open if Wanda were not experiencing _____

Most standardized tests of intelligence have a distribution of scores that _____

Why should inclusion (or mainstreaming)in schools continue?

Tracey is a pastry chef specializing in strawberry tarts. If asked to quickly name a dessert, even though most people would likely respond with cake or cookies, Tracey would likely say strawberry tarts. Strawberry tart is a(n)_____-a concept based on Tracey's personal experience as a pastry chef.

The danger of making decisions based on _____ is that our _____ will be too strong an influence.

Lewis Terman's longitudinal study showed that people who have very high IQs tend to _____

How do we know that creativity and intelligence are different?