Exam 7: Section 2: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

The Buraku people of Japan, who are looked down upon by other Japanese and whose IQ scores are 10 to 15 points below mainstream Japanese, illustrate the fact that:

Which of the following statements about creativity is FALSE?

The _____ occurs when people accept only the evidence that conforms to their conviction, rejecting or ignoring any evidence that does not

Which statement best characterizes the process of insight?

Psychologist Margaret Shih and her colleagues conducted a study where mathematically gifted Asian American female college students were randomly assigned to three groups. Group 1 filled out a questionnaire about their Asian background, designed to remind them of their Asian identity. Group 2 filled out a questionnaire designed to remind them of their female identity. Group 3 was the control group and filled out a neutral questionnaire. The students who were reminded of their racial identity as Asians scored significantly higher on the exam than the students who were reminded of their gender identity as women. The effect of racial identity in this study is an example of:

When we form a concept by learning the rules or features that define a particular concept, it is called a(n) _____ concept.

Which of the following BEST defines a prototype?

Two of your friends are having a heated argument about whether a particular basketball player is one of the "super-greats" or just one of the "greats" of basketball. Because you have read this chapter, you point out to them that their argument may never be resolved because "super-great basketball players" is a(n):

Lewis Terman studied 1,500 California children between the ages of eight and 12 who had IQs above 140. What were the findings of Terman's research?

Charles Spearman believed that _____ was/were responsible for overall performance on mental ability tests.

A decision-making strategy that involves evaluating all of the options one characteristic at a time, starting with the most important, and discarding an option if it doesn't meet that criterion, is called the _____ model.

Cross-cultural research has found that members of stigmatized groups in many different societies tend to score _____ on intelligence tests than members of dominant social groups, even if the stigmatized group members are of the same race as the dominant group.

Lewis Terman's colleague, Melita Oden, continued to study Terman's gifted children after they had reached adulthood. Oden compared the 100 most successful men (the A group) with the 100 least successful men (the C group). What did Oden find?

When Valerie decided to return to college, she had to figure out how she was going to support herself financially and still maintain a high grade-point average. Valerie is engaged in:

According to Howard Gardner's theory of intelligence, there are _____ distinct types of intelligence.

According to the In Focus box, "Does a High IQ Score Predict Success in Life?" which of the following statements about the relationship between IQ and success is FALSE?

Language is a highly structured system that follows specific rules for combining words. These rules are referred to as the _____ of a language.

Joseph is trying to select a new couch for his living room. As he looks at each couch at the furniture store, he tries to visualize how it would look in his living room at home. Joseph is using _____ to help him determine which couch to buy.

A system which provides arbitrary symbols that can be combined in an infinite number of meaningful statements is a definition of:

A characteristic of human language is that we can use it to communicate meaningfully about ideas, objects, and activities that are not physically present. This characteristic is called: