Exam 7: Thinking, intelligence, and Language

When the scores on a measure relate to important outcomes,we say the test has high _____.

_____ produces many solutions to the same problem.

It has commonly been reported that the heritability of intelligence is approximately _____ percent.

People often form general rules and concepts based on specific experiences and examples.This type of reasoning is known as _____.

Which of the following is true of babbling?

Heuristics and algorithms differ in terms of their _____.

Which of the following is true of concepts?

_____ refers to a language's rules for word formation,whereas _____ refer to the meaning of words and sentences.

Creative people engage in _____.

Compare and contrast Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence and Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.What are the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches to intelligence?

Carla is a first-semester freshman at State University.She succeeded in high school by cramming for exams and relying on parental pressure to get homework done.Now,however,she is finding that these strategies are no longer viable ways to succeed.According to the text,Carla should _____.

_____ involves reasoning from a general case that we know to be true to a specific instance.

A child with a mental age of 9 and a chronological age of 12 has an IQ of _____.

A high school football coach decides to use the time taken to run up 100 stairs as a test for running endurance.He tests every team member on 3 consecutive days and finds that the times for each person are very much the same on all three trials.His test for endurance appears to have good _____.

_____ occurs when a group of people openly throw out a range of possible solutions to a problem,even some that might seem crazy.

You have been asked to review a set of test items that are being considered for a standardized intelligence test.The test constructors want to eliminate all items that contain any possible culture bias.With this task in mind,which of the following questions would you eliminate first?

The textbook describes a case study of a young girl named Genie who was isolated and severely abused.Because her parents never communicated with her in words,Genie lacked exposure to language during her early childhood years.Although she was able to make some language advances while in extensive rehabilitation,as an adult Genie still speaks in short mangled two- or three-word sentences.This case study suggests that language development _____.

Infinite generativity refers to _____.

The good strategy for subgoaling is to _____.

Carlos believes that all of the people from another part of his town are snobs.He believes that the students from this area are rich and drive expensive sports cars to school.He is scheduled to perform with a few of these students in an all-county musical presentation.If he assumes that these particular students will also be rich and snobby,he is using _____.