Exam 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language

The divergent thinking technique of writing down everything that comes to mind about a topic without revising or proofreading until all of the information is recorded, and then organizing it later, is known as ________.

The ability to learn from one's experiences, acquire knowledge, and use resources effectively when faced with challenges or problems is the psychologist's working definition of ________.

Beliefs that being gifted or a genius lead to being weird, socially awkward, or more likely to suffer from mental illnesses, were put to rest by ________.

Compared to formal concepts learned in science and math, natural concepts tend to be ________.

Having a high IQ doesn't always guarantee success. Terman and Oden examined the most and least successful men in their sample of gifted individuals. The most successful were ________.

Frank mistakenly believes that there are more words that begin with the letter "k" than there are with the letter "k" in the third position due to the ________.

What score indicates how one individual compares to others on an intelligence test?

A system for combining symbols so that an infinite number of meaningful statements can be made is called ________.

A test can fail in validity while still being reliable.

Which of the following questions would be more likely to produce divergent thinking?

Little Nicholas is learning to speak, and it is clear to his parents that he understands far more words than he can say. Psychologists refer to this as a receptive-________ lag.

What are mental categories representing activities, objects, qualities, or situations that share some common characteristics?

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

Which example would most people take longest to identify as a fruit (even though it technically is a fruit)?

The theory of multiple intelligences was proposed by ________.

________ thinking works well for routine problem solving but may be of little use when a more creative solution is needed.

What type of thinking could be described as taking different directions in search of a variety of answers to a question?

Language is based on basic sound units called ________.

Let's say we could teach a dolphin to understand the difference between the sentences "The parrot kissed the dolphin" and "The dolphin kissed the parrot." If this were demonstrated, it might mean the dolphin had an understanding of ________.

On a newly developed IQ test, if an individual scores at the 110 level on the first half of the test, and 150 on the second half of the test, what does this test appear to lack?