Exam 6: Language, Thinking, and Intelligence: What Humans Do Best

Deductive reasoning appears to rely on ________.

Young children sometimes literally interpret sentences like "Do you know where your mommy is?" by answering "Yes." They failed to understand the ________ of the question.

Coming up with as many different uses of a brick as possible, such as using them for doorstops, is a type of ________ thinking.

Don tells Ray he wants to get a new sports car. Ray immediately understands why, because he is familiar with the common characteristics of sports cars and knows what makes them different from family cars. Ray is using mental categories called ________.

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

People began measuring intelligence through tests roughly__________ years ago.

Difficulty in the "hiking monk problem" is usually a result of how you set the problem up. This is called ________.

Agatha Harkness-Smythe is determined to ban guns in the United States. This is a controversial topic and social scientists have debated whether the ownership of guns by citizens increases or decreases crime. Agatha could go to the library and look up studies on the linkage between guns and crime rates. Instead, Agatha just reads the local newspaper and only cuts out articles about robberies in which the "bad guy" used a firearm. Agatha is demonstrating ____________.

An advantage of using a heuristic over an algorithm is ________.

How are affirming the consequent and the confirmation bias related?

Like most characteristics of a population, WAIS-IV scores are distributed in a bell or normal curve. Which of the following is an accurate characteristic of those types of curves?

Language production is the ability to understand the message conveyed by words, phrases, and sentences.

The ability to carefully observe aspects of the natural environment is consistent with ________ intelligence.

The two most common forms of mental retardation are ________.

Lewis Terman and his colleagues revised the Binet-Simon test. The new test was called the ________.

Imagine your friend has a pet parakeet named Peewee. At the basic level, what is Peewee?

In the U.S., people with higher IQs generally ________.

IQ is unrelated to all aspects of the real world.

Norming a test involves setting two measures, the ________ and ________.

Criticisms of Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences include ________.