Exam 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language

Which of the following statements BEST describes the general relationship between thinking and language?

Standardization refers to the process of giving a measure to a group of people that represents the target individuals for whom that measure is intended.

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

People are termed gifted in terms of intelligence if their IQ is above ________.

The smallest meaningful units in a language are ________.

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 ________.

The tendency to perceive and approach problems in the same ways that have worked in the past is called ________.

The sentences "The dog bit the boy" and "The boy was bitten by the dog" have the same meaning, but differ in ________.

At the current time, which statement is TRUE about our knowledge of whether animals can use humanlike language?

Suppose Maria's mental age is 20 and her chronological age is 10. What is her IQ?

Alfred Binet designed the first ________ test.

The rhythm and emphasis on each word is called ________.

When people are asked to relate how many windows they have in the place where they live, the amount of time to answer doesn't depend on the number of windows.

Sally is enrolled in a high school geometry course, which she describes as "drawing figures and figuring drawings." In a typical class, students draw geometric figures and use a formula to calculate an aspect of the figure, such as its area. Each time Sally uses a formula, she is making use of what psychologists call ________.

The practical aspects of communicating with others, or the social "niceties" of language, are referred to as ________.

A famous lecturer argues that because the Hopi Indians have only two nouns for things that fly, one for birds and another for nonbirds, the Hopi MUST interpret all flying things in terms of these two nouns. This argument is based on ________.

The system of rules that governs how we assign meaning to the morphemes we use is called ________.

Seventy percent of the students in a classroom are women and 30 percent are men. One student is described as ambitious, athletic, and assertive. Why are most people likely to think this description refers to a male student?

Which of these is an element of the formal definition of intellectual disability?

All parents think their little kids are geniuses. However, to be classified as a genius, the IQ score must be above ________.