Exam 10: The Thinking Mind Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Damage to the frontal lobes,such as that suffered by Phineas Gage,reliably produces ____.

Concept formation is ____.

An attentional circuit involving the insula,the anterior cingulate cortex,and the ______ seems to play a role in complex social decision making,such as deciding whom to trust.

Which of the following is a phoneme and a morpheme?

Which of the following is true regarding the relationship between "genius" and IQ?

According to a report on endangered languages,what percentage of the world's spoken languages may soon be lost?

According to the textbook,individuals with high IQ scores

The ability to think logically without the need to use learned knowledge was called ____ intelligence by Charles Spearman.

Katie loved baking brownies with her grandmother during her holiday visits.In fact,she still makes these brownies using the exact same steps as her grandmother.What is this called?

The recognition heuristic ____.

Which of the following is a problem that children with intellectual disability commonly face?

Ella is 4 years old and expanding her schema regarding dogs.The dog that she knows the best is her neighbor's golden retriever,Gus.She was recently told by her neighbor that dogs like to roll in grass with distinctive,or "smelly," odors.Under what circumstances is she most likely to extend that fact to all dogs?

Define language and discuss its importance to human thought,communications,and interactions.Describe Whorf's hypothesis of linguistic relativity and its implications.

Tinesha comes into her Introduction to Psychology class on the first day of the semester and sees a woman wearing blue jeans and a hoodie sitting at the front of class.She does not say anything to her,and assumes that she is just someone sitting in the room.When more students show up and the woman doesn't leave,Tinesha starts to wonder if she is going to cause a problem.When she stands up and says,"Hello everyone,I'm Dr.Lawrence and I will be teaching your psychology class this semester," Tinesha starts to wonder if this will be a good class.Tinesha's perception of Dr.Lawrence is probably affected by the fact that she does not represent a common _______,or average "image," of a college professor.

Jenner has a dream of devoting his career to the reduction and eventual elimination of HIV/AIDS.What does the text recommend as an approach to address a substantial,large-scale problem such as HIV/AIDS?

A morpheme is ____.

Which group is most likely to use visual images in their thought processes?

Reyana's parents arrange for her to take part in an intelligence test for private elementary school admissions.Her individual intelligence is measured to be 125 relative to a statistically normal curve with an average of 100.This is her ____.

According to current research,the brain has ____.

The affected area of the brain in Wernicke's aphasia is ____.