Exam 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language

Seventy percent of the students in a classroom are women and 30 percent are men.One student is described as ambitious,athletic,and assertive.Why would most people think this description refers to a male student?

A group of psychologists reviews the literature on the heritability of intelligence.They conclude that most of the estimates indicate that _______percent of intelligence is due to genetics.

Fragile X syndrome,Down syndrome,and fetal alcohol syndrome are all forms of developmental disabilities.

The word playing consists of two _________,play and ing.

The tendency to perceive and approach problems in the same ways that have worked in the past is called:

The sounds of the letters b,z,c,and d are examples of:

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of creative people?

If you were assessing fluency,originality,elaboration,abstractness of titles,and resistance to closure,you would be using the __________ component of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking.

Professor Beckett designed an IQ test for children.To standardize this test,the professor must be careful to do which of the following?

The basic meaningful units of any language are called:

Items on a "culture fair" test require:

Elizabeth was tested while in grade school and was found to have an IQ of 134.Elizabeth's intelligence level can be labelled as:

The mental activity that goes on in the brain when a person is organizing and attempting to understand information and conveying information to others is known as:

Professor Beckett designed an IQ test.To standardize this test,the professor should be careful to do which of the following?

According to the AAIDD,the term adaptive skills used in the diagnosis of developmental disability includes all of the following EXCEPT ______________ skills.

Which of the following correlations of intelligence level would provide evidence for an environmental influence on intelligence?

The standards against which all others who take a test would be compared are called:

It would take the same amount of time to correctly identify an olive as a fruit as it would to correctly identify an apple as a fruit.

In problem solving,the term rule of thumb refers to:

What term do psychologists use to designate our personal awareness of everything that is going on around us?