Exam 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language

The key to hypnotic induction seems to be related to:

Jordan is a 10-year-old boy who has a mental age of 8 years.His IQ would be:

Charles Spearman believed that intelligence is composed of:

"Culture-fair" IQ testing might include all of the following techniques and modifications EXCEPT:

Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences divides intelligence into ______ independent abilities.

The system of rules for combining words and phrases to make meaningful sentences is called:

What are the basic units of meaning in a language?

A 10-year-old child who scored like an average 8-year-old on an intelligence test would have an IQ of 80.

Randall believes that aliens crashed in Western Canada in the 1950s.When looking for information about this on the internet,he ignores any sites that are skeptical of his belief and only visits and talks with his friends about the sites that support his belief.This is an example of:

Phonemes are:

Canadian researcher Laural Trainor and her colleagues found that a significant benefit of musical training for young children was there were:

Which factor is not one of the criticisms cited about Herrnstein and Murray's controversial research on heritability and intelligence?

Research identified that the Dani Indians have only two words for "colour" yet were no different in their ability to perceive all the colours than were their English-speaking counterparts.This finding supports the cognitive universalism language theory of:

What do we call the hypothesis that suggests that language influences what we think?

A sleep disorder that may require the use of a machine to force air gently into the nasal passages is called:

What systematic problem-solving method guarantees a solution,provided that one exists?

Spearman proposed a theory of intelligence based on two different abilities.These abilities are known as ________ and _________ intelligences.

Researchers have found that despite the number of colour names in a language,the basic abilities to perceive colour are unchanged.This finding would be troublesome for the theory of:

The trial-and-error method of solving problems is also known as the__________ method.

When people are asked to answer how many windows they have in their home,they are most likely to use _______ to calculate the number of windows.