Exam 7: Cognition: Thinking, Intelligence, and Language

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

What are the smallest units of meaning in a language?

Riley has figured out how to unlock his bedroom door with a paper clip. What has he most likely overcome in his new use of the paper clip?

What term do psychologists use to describe our tendency to search for evidence that supports our belief and to ignore evidence that might disprove it?

The communication between honeybees would NOT be classified as language because ________.

An advantage of algorithms over heuristics is that ________.

The system of rules for combining words and phrases to form correct sentences is called ________.

According to Robert Sternberg, ________ intelligence is the ability to deal with new and different concepts and to come up with new ways of solving problems (divergent thinking, in other words).

Culture-fair tests attempt to measure ________.

When adults who are speaking to infants change the pitch and rhythm in their speech, they are altering their ________.

An 8-year-old child who scored like an average 10-year-old on an intelligence test would have a mental age of ________ and an IQ of ________.

A group of psychologists reviews the literature on the heritability of intelligence. They conclude that most of the estimates indicate that ________ percent of intelligence is due to genetics.

The ________ effect refers to the fact that IQ scores have increased generation to generation in modernized countries.

An example of Sternberg's practical intelligence is ________.

Which of the following is one of the animals that has been taught to use language with some success?

According to famed linguist Noam Chomsky, humans have an innate ability to understand and produce language through a device he called ________.

The sounds t, th, and sh are ________.

What three types of intelligence constitute Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence?

A person starts from one point and comes up with many different ideas or possibilities based on that point. The person is engaging in ________.

Language is based on basic sound units called ________.