Exam 7: Thinking, intelligence, and Language

Open-mindedness involves _____.

The fact that we hear about airplane crashes on the news more often than we hear about automobile crashes may lead us to believe that we are more likely to die in a plane than a car.This is an example of a(n)_____.

According to Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence,_____ intelligence involves the ability to design,invent,originate,and imagine.

Psychological research involves studying a sample of participants in order to draw conclusions about the population from which the sample is drawn.This is an example of _____.

Discuss the similarities and differences between the human brain and a computer.

Which of the following characteristics is essential to the process of critical thinking?

Malcom has an IQ of 140.He has skipped three grades and is a straight A student with superior verbal and mathematical talent.Psychologists would consider Malcom to be _____.

The ability to analyze,judge,evaluate,compare,and contrast are characteristics of _____ intelligence.

If you spend the day imagining the outcome of the upcoming football game,and then a friend asks you what your favorite sport is and you say "football" even though before today basketball was actually your favorite,you have used and/or experienced _____.

Define the five basic components of language.

_____ refers to a language's rules for combining words to form acceptable phrases and sentences.

Every week during football season,Fred and his friends have fun following the local high school teams.Before the games,Fred never really talks too much about how the games will turn out.On Monday,however,it is a different scenario altogether.Fred is more than happy to share with his friends that the games came out exactly as he thought they would and why.Fred seems to be demonstrating _____.

Which of the following is true of creative thinkers?

_____ is a characteristic of good critical thinkers.

_____ is an individual's level of mental development relative to that of others.

Developing a criterion for determining the effectiveness of the solution occurs during which step of the problem-solving process?

Describe the characteristics of creative people.

_____ are mental categories used to group objects,events,and characteristics.

_____ may help us to generalize,whereas _____ may help us accomplish a goal.

_____ is a language's sound system.