Exam 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language

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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:

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A psychological test that measures what we intend it to measure is said to be:

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Emotional intelligence has been found to be ________ to academic success in college or university; grades in high school have been found to be ________ to academic success in college or university.

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Pragmatics are defined as the:

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Which of the following groups of children is most likely to have the most similar IQ scores?

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Which was a finding of the Terman and Oden (1974)study of gifted children?

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What two categories of subtests make up the Wechsler intelligence tests?

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Which of these is one of Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences?

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The sounds t,th,and sh are:

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Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding sleepwalking?

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Which of the following was NOT one of the errors of the authors of The Bell Curve?

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Let's say we could teach a dolphin to understand the difference between the sentences "The parrot kissed the dolphin" and "The dolphin kissed the parrot." If this were demonstrated,it might mean the dolphin had an understanding of:

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People are deemed gifted in terms of intelligence if their IQ exceeds 130.

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Language is based on universal sound units called:

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The three most common biological causes of intellectual disability are Down syndrome,fetal alcohol syndrome,and:

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The communication between honeybees would not be classified as animal language because:

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

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In school,you may have learned the rule of how to determine the area of a circle.The formula was R².This formula always guarantees a solution and that you will be able to determine the area.The formula is an example of an algorithm.

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Intelligence involves all of the following abilities and processes EXCEPT ______________ in adapting to new situations or solving problems.

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At the current time,which statement is true about our knowledge of whether animals can use humanlike language?

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